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Small fruit high in pectin
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crabapple
Alternative clues for the word crabapple
- Any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acid (usually bright red) fruit used for preserving or as ornamentals for their blossoms
- Suitable for preserving
- Start of Christian parable reinterpreted to cover soft fruit?
- Grumpy flowering tree?
- Any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acid fruit
- Small, tart fruit
- Sour fruit
Word definitions for crabapple in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Crabapple , a term used for several species of Malus in the family Rosaceae Crabapple may also refer to: Molly Crabapple (born 1983), American artist, author and entrepreneur Crabapple, Georgia , one of the oldest parts of Fulton County, Georgia Crabapple, ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acid (usually bright red) fruit used for preserving or as ornamentals for their blossoms [syn: crab apple , cultivated crab apple ] any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small ...
Usage examples of crabapple.
Chapter VI The Wind in the Crabapple Blossoms About a week later, Mistress Hempen received the following letter from Luke: Dear Auntie, -- I trust this finds you as well as it leaves me.
Very sulkily it was that the Crabapple Blossoms obeyed, for they were all feeling as cross as two sticks at having such a vulgar buffoon for their master, and at being forced to learn silly old-fashioned dances that would be of no use to them when they were grown-up.
Suddenly the music stopped, and flushed, laughing, and fanning themselves with their pocket handkerchiefs, the Crabapple Blossoms flung themselves down on the floor, against a pile of bulging sacks in one of the corners, indifferent for probably the first time in their lives to possible damage to their frocks.
And in and out, in and out of a labyrinth of dreams wound the Crabapple Blossoms.
They were all, too, calling down vengeance on the head of Miss Primrose Crabapple, and demanding that she should be found and handed over to justice.
A couple of days later the Yeomen sent to search for the other Crabapple Blossoms returned with similar news.
The Crabapple Blossoms had by now surely perished in the Elfin Marches, or else vanished for ever into Fairyland.
When the news first reached him of the flight of the Crabapple Blossoms he very nearly went off his head.
Hempie had, indeed, taken the news of the Crabapple Blossoms very calmly.
Miss Primrose was sitting bolt upright in a straight backed old fashioned chair, against a background of fine old tapestries, faded to the softest loveliest pastel tints -- as incongruous with her grotesque ugliness as had been the fresh prettiness of the Crabapple Blossoms.
That afternoon Mumchance came to Master Polydore to inform him that a young maid-servant from the Academy had just been to the guard-room to say that Miss Primrose Crabapple had killed herself.
Master Polydore at once hurried off to the scene of the tragedy, and there in the pleasant old garden where so many generations of Crabapple Blossoms had romped, and giggled, and exchanged their naughty little secrets, he found Miss Primrose, hanging stone-dead from one of her own apple-trees.
Out of the platform grew an apple tree, and tied to it was his own daughter, Prunella, while grouped around her in various attitudes of woe were the other Crabapple Blossoms.
Even Willy Wisp was listening, and the Crabapple Blossoms gazed at him with inexpressible gratitude.
Chapter XXX Master Ambrose Keeps His Vow At first the Crabapple Blossoms felt as if they had awakened from an evil dream, but they soon found that it was a dream that had profoundly influenced their souls.