Meaning of crab appletree | Babel Free

Definitions

Rare form of crabapple tree.

form-of, rare

Examples

“248.* P. communis, L. Wild Peartree.[…]249. P. malus, L. Crab Appletree. Dodgesglen and on fences.—common.”

“Dimly, subduedly sweet, were those days, clouded perhaps a little with boyish melancholy, and now brought to my remembrance by the play⟳ of sunshine and shadow in and round familiar nooks, by the leafy woodbine under the garden wall, by the sparkling dewy grass-blades, and the odor of the breathing woods, by the crab-appletree hedge, covered with grape-vines, and bordered with blackberry bushes, and inclosing the several fields, each shedding its own⟳ peculiar fragrance;”

“ablacán a crab-appletree, P. O’ C.”

“crab-appletree (fiadaball) 156.”

“Pyrus malus, Linn. / Pommier sauvage. / Wild apple. / Crab appletree.”

“The local difficulty he encountered was mainly in root killing, and the plan⟳ he adopted was grafting in hardy crab appletree roots, thus producing strong trees, not likely to winter kill⟳, that are now in an excellent healthy condition.”

“So lilting was the cadence that the lambs started to gambol ’round the crab appletree like⟳ children about a Maypole.”

“drinking bout at Bidford: slept under crab appletree”

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