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crab apple

  1. any of several species of small, very sour apples (genus Malus), growing wild or cultivated and used for making jellies and preserves
  2. a tree bearing crab apples
    also crab tree

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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