WordNet
flowering crab
n. derived from the Iowa crab and cultivated for its large double pink blossoms [syn: Bechtel crab]
small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms [syn: Southern crab apple, Malus angustifolia]
Usage examples of "flowering crab".
Atop that box I placed a bough, broken not cut, from our flowering crab apple tree.
The freshly green foliage looked sickly, the dogwood pallid, and the flowering crab, so beautifully pink a moment ago, faded and dreary.
Kemp stared at a flowering crab-apple tree that clung to the rocks above him, and even as he watched a slight breeze shook the tree and a shower of petals cascaded down toward him.