WordNet
n. wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples [syn: Malus sylvestris]
Usage examples of "wild crab".
The path was redolent with odors, and bright with mountain shrubs and flowers,-- the pink laurel bush, the shining rhododendron, and the grape and plum and wild crab.
There had been a girl and an enchanted valley they had walked in, a springtime valley, he remembered, with the pink of wild crab apple blossoms flaming on the hills and the song of bluebird and of lark soaring in the sky, and there had been wild spring breeze that ruffled the water and blew along the grass so that the meadow seemed to flow and become a lake with whitecaps rolling on it.
The players could not drink water during it, only a beverage concocted from wild crab-apples, green grapes, and similarly sour ingredients.
They all lunched together in the shade of a wild crab thicket, with flowers spread at their feet, and the gold orioles streaking the air with flashes of light and trailing ecstasy behind them, while the red-wings, as always, asked the most impertinent questions.