Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun southern_crab_apple

1 sense of southern crab apple

Sense 1
Southern crab apple, flowering crab, Malus angustifolia -- (small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms)
       => crab apple, crabapple, 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 blossoms)