cultivated crab apple

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1.cultivated crab apple - any of numerous varieties of crab apples cultivated for their small acidic (usually bright red) fruit used for preserves or as ornamentals for their blossomscrab apple, crabapplecrab apple, crabapple - small sour apple; suitable for preserving; "crabapples make a tangy jelly"apple tree - any tree of the genus Malus especially those bearing firm rounded edible fruitscherry apple, cherry crab, Malus baccata, Siberian crab, Siberian crab apple - Asian wild crab apple cultivated in many varieties for it small acid usually red fruit used for preservingMalus angustifolia, Southern crab apple, flowering crab - small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms