cultivated crab apple

Questions about cultivated crab apple

What does cultivated crab apple mean?

cultivated crab apple means "any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossoms".

What is another word for cultivated crab apple?

Close synonyms include crab apple, crabapple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cultivated crab apple a common word?

cultivated crab apple is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.