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- noun Plural form of
crabapple .
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Examples
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When I was a kid, there were some trees that neighbours had that grew very small apples that we called crabapples, but I don't know if they actually were.
CRABAPPLES-- THE FORGOTTEN FRUIT Bryanna Clark Grogan 2008
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On smaller flowering ornamental trees, such as crabapples, low branches can pruned up to around three feet.
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Deer in the areas I hunt feed heavily on crabapples (of which there is a very good crop, thereof) and acorns.
Weekly Rut Report 2009
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The backyard to my grandmother's house was partly shaded by a canopy of crabapple trees, and some of the crabapples had already fallen and begun to rot in the heat.
A Spark and a Flash Neil Serven 2011
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Branches of crabapples with swelling buds, dogwoods and flowering trees and shrubs are good for indoor displays in late winter and early spring.
Say it with your own arrangement - or cutting garden - of flowers Joel M. Lerner 2011
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Deer in the areas I hunt feed heavily on crabapples (of which there is a very good crop, thereof) and acorns.
Weekly Rut Report 2009
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He would have taken it for a dead tree stump; but for the mess of tiny red crabapples.
Garden 2010
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I reveled in a bucolic realm of flowering crabapples, fragrant Russian olives, and lush lilacs.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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I reveled in a bucolic realm of flowering crabapples, fragrant Russian olives, and lush lilacs.
Runners Jack Canfield 2010
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All those red crabapples hanging like Christmas balls.
Garden 2010
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