crabapple

See also: crab-apple and crab apple

English

Crabapples (fruit) on the branch.

Alternative forms

• crab-apple, crab apple

Etymology

From crab (“wild apple”) +‎ apple.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹæbˌæpəl/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

crabapple (plural crabapples)

1. Any of the wild species of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, Malus domestica).

   Synonyms: crab, crab tree, crabapple tree

2. The fruit of this tree.

   Synonym: crab

3. An unpleasant person; a person who is crabby.

   Synonyms: grouch, grump, misery, moaner

Hypernyms

• fruit
  • apple

Derived terms

Derived terms

• American crabapple (Malus coronaria)
• Chinese crabapple (Malus baccata)
• cultivated crabapple
• European crabapple (Malus sylvestris)
• garland crabapple (Malus coronaria)
• Iowa crabapple (Malus ioensis)
• Manchurian crabapple (Malus baccata)
• Oregon crabapple, Pacific crabapple (Malus fusca)
• prairie crabapple (Malus ioensis)
• showy crabapple (Malus floribunda)
• Siberian crabapple (Malus baccata)
• southern crab apple (Malus angustifolia)
• sweet crabapple (Malus coronaria)
• Texas crabapple (Malus ioensis var. texana)
• western crabapple (Malus fusca)

Translations

tree

• Basque: sagarmin
• Bulgarian: дива ябълка f (diva jabǎlka)
• Catalan: pomera salvatge f
• Cheyenne: náhkôhemenó'e
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野蘋果 / 野苹果 (yěpíngguǒ), 海棠 (zh) (hǎitáng)

• Cornish: gwedhen krabbys (collective)
• Faroese: apaldur m
• Finnish: villiomenapuu
• Galician: maceira brava f
• Georgian: მაჟალო (mažalo)
• German: Holzapfel (de) m
• Ingrian: metsäomenapuu
• Irish: crann fia-úll m
• Latvian: mežābele (lv) f
• Portuguese: macieira silvestre f
• Russian: ди́кая я́блоня (díkaja jáblonja)
• Scottish Gaelic: fiadh-ubhal m
• Spanish: manzano silvestre m
• Swedish: vildapel (sv) n
• Welsh: coeden afal bach sur f

fruit

• Albanian: mollë e egër f
• Bulgarian: киселица f (kiselica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野蘋果 / 野苹果 (yěpíngguǒ)

• Cornish: aval goodh m
• Danish: vildæble n, skovæble n
• Esperanto: sovaĝa pomo
• Finnish: villiomena
• French: coing (fr)
• Galician: mazá brava f
• Georgian: მაჟალო (mažalo)
• German: Holzapfel (de) m
• Ingrian: metsäomena
• Irish: fia-úll m, úll fiáin m, goirteog f
• Manx: gartag f, ooyl feie f
• Plautdietsch: Paradiessaupel m
• Portuguese: maçã silvestre f
• Russian: ди́кое я́блоко n (díkoje jábloko)
• Scottish Gaelic: fiadh-ubhal m
• Spanish: manzana silvestre f
• Tagalog: alimangong mansanas
• Welsh: afal bach sur m, crabysyn m, grobosyn m

unpleasant person

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乖戾的人 (guāilì de rén)

• Finnish: hapannaama
• Russian: отморо́зок (ru) m (otmorózok)
• Swedish: surkart (sv) n

References

• crabapple on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Malus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Malus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• crabapple at USDA Plants database
• “crabapple”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• applecrab