Did you maybe mean one of these? crappie, cripple
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Any of the wild varieties of apple tree, genus Malus, which generally yield small, bitter fruit (in comparison to domestic apples, Malus domestica.
- n. The fruit of this tree.
- n. An unpleasant person; a person who is crabby.
Examples
“In recent years, Cedar Waxwings have increasingly turned to crops and ornamentals such as crabapple, hawthorn, firethorn, pepper tree, Russian olive in the West, and non-native honeysuckle in the East as winter food sources.”
“For color "up high," flowering trees such as crabapple, magnolia and tulip trees can be real show stoppers.”
“If you really can't bear to black out your lips (with pale eyes and just a crabapple of blusher), then try a dark plummy red, such as Dolce & Gabbana's or Maybelline's.”
“Dense, slightly chewy, riddled with onions and garlic with that "just so" touch of roasted sesame oil, I wouldn't hesitate to pair this bread with (garlic?) butter, or even a crabapple jelly would be awesome!”
“We live in a second-floor flat on the west side of Cleveland, next to a church with a small crabapple orchard out back.”
“I pause beneath a crabapple tree and look for a place to hide.”
“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.”
“Nothing too exotic to report aside from a flock of purple finches in the crabapple tree.”
“Reminds moi of barrel of Apples, if one does not remove the rotten one, the bad crabapple wins, good, never in of itself makes bad good only good bad.”
“The three little girls followed me and we ran around like superheros or jumped out of the crabapple tree.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crabapple’.
-
Phonestheme: CR- (or KR-)
Grateful credit to pterodactyl and http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
crook, crack, crane, cremains, cranberries, crimp, crow, crunch, crash, creak, croak, cronk and 94 more...
-
rolls off the tongue
Words you love saying because they feel and sound so good!
(Not to be conflated with words you love saying because they are onomatopoeic, I have another list for that)gubernatorial, predeliction, quibbling, propensity, proclivity, insidious, nebulous, garble, crabapple, piddling, prattle, wheedling and 11 more...
-
Crabby
Is it a crab? Does it have crab in its name? Does it contain the letters c-r-a-b (in that order)? Then list it!
crab, crabby, crabs, horseshoe crab, crabapple, crab grass, large crabgrass, crabgrass, Scrabble, hermit crab, king crab, robber crab and 46 more...
-
Apple Words
Apple used to be a generic term for fruit so it shows up a lot.
apple, crabapple, pineapple, pomegranate, pomme de terre, cranapple, applejack, appletini, wood-apple, mayapple, appley, chamomile
-
words I love to use
kerfuffle, smarmy, sketchy, grim, wheedle, piffle, prattle, loggerheads, snarky, piddling, nix, caterwaul and 90 more...
-
Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
-
Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
-
Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
-
The Garden on Ryons Street
I spent a few seasons doing gardening work for a former English professor. This is just a list of some of the friends I made in her garden. (Some of these plants spent the winter inside, of course.)
filipendula, Tradescantia, eglantine, Ispahan, Comtesse de Murinais, Crested Moss, rugosa rose, goutweed, creeping charlie, buttercup, lilac, cedar and 97 more...
-
habitat
Transforming our yard into a place for living things. The list and the yard will grow in tandem. I will add only as I plant (or discover volunteers).
serviceberry, elderberry, pagoda dogwood, american hazelnut, wild bergamot, spiderwort, rattlesnake master, crabapple, ostrich fern, echinacea, woodland phlox, river birch and 41 more...
-
Blue remembered hills
Flora, fauna and other things common in the time and place where I grew up
millipede, dock leaf, snowdrop, nettle, ragwort, oxeye, moss, bindweed, lichen, hay, forget-me-not, bluebell and 62 more...
-
Fruity words
All fruits are not created equal. Nor are all words for fruits. These are my favorite fruit words and not necessarily my favorite fruits!
pomegranate, pome, pomelo, kiwi, rambutan, tomato, breadfruit, durian, tangerine, raspberry, huckleberry, elderberry and 5 more...
-
Names and kinds of fruit
A list made in honor of my son, who likes to eat it. A lot. Today he's had blueberries, apples, bananas, and watermelon, and that was just in his first two hours awake. Limited to fruit I could thi...
apple, banana, watermelon, orange, grape, blueberry, papaya, mango, nectarine, peach, grapefruit, pomelo and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crabapple.
seanahan Crabapple! I thought her name was Crandall! Jul 24, 2007
slumry It is sad when trees go. . .I just visited the Sequoia tree in what was once my mother's yard. It was a tiny thing when my brother gave it to her oh those many years ago. They are not native here, nor do people commonly plant them for ornamentals. Jul 24, 2007
reesetee They are nice, aren't they? We had three crabapple trees in our yard when I was growing up. All gone--although there's one new little one there now. Jul 24, 2007
slumry I love crabapple trees, beautiful pink crabapples, and crabapple jelly (crabapple and quince is a nice combination, too). Thanks! Jul 24, 2007