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Wild crab   /waɪld kræb/   Listen
Wild crab

noun
1.
Wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples.  Synonym: Malus sylvestris.





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"Wild crab" Quotes from Famous Books



... were needed to tell me about flowing water and fish, how hawks raised their broods and kept house, about the softly cooing doves of the spice thickets, the cuckoos slipping snakelike in and out of the wild crab-apple bushes, or the brown thrush's weird call from the thorn bush. I knew what they said and did, but their names, where they came from, where they went when the wind blew and the snow fell—how was I going to find out that? Worse yet were ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
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... should be made of the wild Crab, which produces Thorns on its Branches, and brings a small round Apple, such as are common to be planted for Fences. I am the more particular in this, because some Apples, which are call'd Wildings, are supposed to have a sharp juice, but such ...
— The Country Housewife and Lady's Director - In the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm • Richard Bradley
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Words linked to "Wild crab" :   crab apple, Malus, crabapple, Malus sylvestris, wild apple, genus Malus


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