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Crabapple

noun

Any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms. Synonyms: crab apple, cultivated crab apple.

Any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit. Synonyms: crab apple, wild apple.

Small sour apple; suitable for preserving. Synonym: crab apple.

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"Crabapple" Quotes from Famous Books

... not surrounded by mere air, but was immersed in a dry bath of some infinitely superior vapor, a vapor volatile, soothing, tonic, distilled, it seemed, from the earth, from pine trees, tulip trees, balm-of-Gilead trees, (or "bam" trees, as they call them), blossoming Judas trees, Georgia crabapple, dogwood pink and white, peach blossom, wistaria, sweet-shrub, dog violets, pansy violets, Cherokee roses, wild honeysuckle and azalia, and the evanescent green of new treetops, all carried in solution in the sunlight. By day the ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... With the doctrines of the Church of England which he had embraced on becoming a communicant, he adopted also the contempt for dissenters which was so common among churchmen. Once, on tasting a crabapple, it is said, Brant puckered up his mouth, and exclaimed, "It is as bitter as a Presbyterian!" While in other parts of the country many churchmen espoused the cause of American independence, ...

— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall

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