flowering crab

Questions about flowering crab

What does flowering crab mean?

flowering crab means "derived from the Iowa crab and cultivated for its large double pink blossoms". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for flowering crab?

Close synonyms include Bechtel crab, Southern crab apple, Malus angustifolia. 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 flowering crab a common word?

flowering crab 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.