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Definition of Malus coronaria
1. Noun. Medium-sized tree of the eastern United States having pink blossoms and small yellow fruit.
Group relationships: Genus Malus, Malus
Generic synonyms: Crab Apple, Crabapple, Wild Apple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malus Coronaria
Literary usage of Malus coronaria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"A small tree, resembling malus coronaria. Leaves simple, firm, white-pubescent
beneath, at length glabrous above, obtuse at the apex, mostly narrowed at the ..."
2. Tree Guide: Trees East of the Rockies by Julia Ellen Rogers (1914)
"... FRAGRANT CRAB (malus coronaria, Mill.). Shrub to 30 feet. Bushy, low tree with
rigid branches and thorny, angular twigs. Bark brown, scaly. ..."
3. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"In thickets, NJ to Kans., Fla. and Ga. —Pennsylvania : CRAWFORD ; ALLEGHENY ;
SOMERSET ; WESTMORELAND. 2. malus coronaria (L.) Mill. AMERICAN CRAB-APPLE. ..."