wild apple

Questions about wild apple

What does wild apple mean?

wild apple means "any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit".

What is another word for wild 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 wild apple a common word?

wild 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.