- crab apple, crabapple, cultivated crab apple - any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acid (usually bright red) fruit used for preserving or as ornamentals for their blossoms
--1 is a kind of apple tree
--1 has parts: crab apple, crabapple
--1 has particulars:Siberian crab, Siberian crab apple, cherry apple, cherry crab, Malus baccata; Southern crab apple, flowering crab, Malus angustifolia