crab apple

noun

: any of various wild or cultivated trees (genus Malus) that are cultivars or relatives of the cultivated apple and that produce small sour fruit

also : the fruit

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Dwarf crab apples can get 8-10 feet tall but can be kept pruned. —

Sheila Yount, arkansasonline.com, 18 Oct. 2024 Chef Cameron Cousin, 46, taps into a lot of diners’ wish lists with his winning roundup of oysters Rockefeller, French onion soup, ricotta scattered with mushrooms, and a strapping pork chop that’s pure comfort (and sweetly served with apple sauce inside hollowed crab apples). —

Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024 The kumquat is to the orange what the crab apple is to the apple – a small, tart version of the larger fruit. —

Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024 The team found evidence of fruit and nuts, including hazelnut, apple and crab apple. —

Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for crab apple