crab-apple

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In the bright sunshine, imposing silence on himself and his companions, he would watch for long together the life in one of the forest glades, the moving creatures in the grass, the tits playing on the branches of a silver birch silhouetted against the sky, the little blue butterflies chasing each other over the pink crab-apple bloom.

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  1. from Middle English crabbe appulle (= Swedish krabbäple); as crab + apple.
 

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