oregon crab apple

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   small tree or shrub of western United States having white blossoms and tiny yellow or red fruit

   SynonymsMalus fusca

   Broaderwild apple

Questions about oregon crab apple

What does oregon crab apple mean?

oregon crab apple means "small tree or shrub of western United States having white blossoms and tiny yellow or red fruit".

What is another word for oregon crab apple?

Close synonyms include Malus fusca. 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 oregon crab apple a common word?

oregon 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.