prairie crab

What does prairie crab mean?

prairie crab means "wild crab apple of western United States with fragrant pink flowers".

What is another word for prairie crab?

Close synonyms include Iowa crab, Iowa crab apple, western crab apple, Malus ioensis. 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 prairie crab a common word?

prairie 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for prairie crab come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.