crab apple
noun
(亦作 crab)
1
- a small sour apple小苹果, 花红海棠沙果林擒。
2
- （亦作 crab tree 或 crab-apple tree）the small tree that bears this fruit小苹果树, 花红树海棠树沙果树林擒树。
2.1
- Genus Malus, family Rosaceae: several species and hybrids, in particular the wild Eurasian crab apple (M. sylvestris), which grows in woods and hedgerows and is one of the possible ancestors of cultivated apples.苹果属, 蔷薇科： 数种和杂交种, 尤指欧亚野苹果, 生长在树林和灌木丛中, 可能是人工栽培苹果的原种。
词源
late Middle English: crab perhaps an alteration （influenced by CRAB1 or CRABBED） of Scots and northern English scrab, in the same sense, probably of Scandinavian origin.