crab appletree

plural crab appletrees

1. rareRare form of crabapple tree.

   crab-appletree (fiadaball) 156.

   1905, Henry Bradshaw Society, page 452

   5 more examples

   248.* P. communis, L. Wild Peartree.[…]249. P. malus, L. Crab Appletree. Dodgesglen and on fences.—common.

   1846, Thomas Power, “First Division: Phænogamic or Vascular Plants”, in The Botanist’s Guide for the County of Cork. Being a Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of the County, and More Especially of the Vicinity of Cork, Together with Their Stations, […], subclass II (Calycifloræ), order XXVII (Rosaceæ), tribe V (Pomeæ), section 101 (Pyrus, Linn. Pear Apple.), page 23

   Dimly, subduedly sweet, were those days, clouded perhaps a little with boyish melancholy, and now brought to my remembrance by the play of sunshine and shadow in and round familiar nooks, by the leafy woodbine under the garden wall, by the sparkling dewy grass-blades, and the odor of the breathing woods, by the crab-appletree hedge, covered with grape-vines, and bordered with blackberry bushes, and inclosing the several fields, each shedding its own peculiar fragrance;

   1890, Hubert Howe Bancroft, “Springs and Little Brooks”, in The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (Literary Industries), volume XXXIX, San Francisco, Calif.: The History Company, […], page 83

   ablacán a crab-appletree, P. O’ C.

   1900, Whitley Stokes, Kuno Meyer, Archiv für celtische Lexikographie, Halle a. S.: Max Niemeyer; London: David Nutt, […]; Paris: Emile Bouillon, […]

   Pyrus malus, Linn. / Pommier sauvage. / Wild apple. / Crab appletree.

   1906, Report of the Minister of Lands and Forests of the Province of Quebec, page 105

   The local difficulty he encountered was mainly in root killing, and the plan he adopted was grafting in hardy crab appletree roots, thus producing strong trees, not likely to winter kill, that are now in an excellent healthy condition.

   1922, History of McHenry County, Illinois, Chicago, Ill.: Munsell Publishing Company, pages 884–885