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Definition of Cherry apple
1. Noun. Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preserving.
Group relationships: Genus Malus, Malus
Generic synonyms: Crab Apple, Crabapple, Cultivated Crab Apple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherry Apple
Literary usage of Cherry apple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"—In the Cherry, Apple, Peach, Oak, Willow, etc., neither the third nor the fourth
leaf, but the sixth, stands over the first ; and in order to reach it the ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"The tree is of robust growth, and the branches are somewhat erect. The Cherry
Crab, or cherry apple, is a subvariety of P. (/V.) baccata. ..."
3. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"The Cherry Crab, or cherry apple, is a subvariety of P. (Af.) baccata. The tree
is spreading, with drooping branches; and the fruit is numerous, ..."
4. An Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"The Violet Apple has fruit of a violet colour, covered with a bloom like that of
Its fruit keeps till February. The Cherry Crab, or cherry apple, ..."
5. The Flower Art of Japan by Mary Averill (1915)
"flowering fruit branches fresh, even if in full bloom, is by bruising the bark
of the branches where they will be under water. This will make cherry, apple, ..."
6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario, Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871) (1885)
"Larva on wild cherry, apple, (Thaxter). 17. ... Radcliffe's Dagger." Larva on
wild cherry, apple, (Thaxter). ..."