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Wild apple   /waɪld ˈæpəl/   Listen
Wild apple

noun
1.
Any of numerous wild apple trees usually with small acidic fruit.  Synonyms: crab apple, crabapple.






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"Wild apple" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother a continual farewell. The small springs tinkled metallically cold into the silver of the lake. The tender green of the gentle glades rolled softly back, dividing the two hills in peaceful separation. And there were the oaks. At the water's edge, near the lesser spring, the wild apple trees twisted, but upon the hills and over the great glades stood the reserved, ...
— The Singing Mouse Stories • Emerson Hough

... is frequently covered up by drifts, and, it is said, "sometimes plunges from on wing into the soft snow, where it remains concealed for a day or two." I used to start them in the open land also, where they had come out of the woods at sunset to "bud" the wild apple trees. They will come regularly every evening to particular trees, where the cunning sportsman lies in wait for them, and the distant orchards next the woods suffer thus not a little. I am glad that the partridge gets ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau

... the prehistoric lake dwellings of Switzerland. When recorded history begins, apples were well known and widely distributed. The apple-tree is wild in many parts of Europe, but it is difficult to determine whether, in a given region, it is indigenous or has run wild from cultivation. Wild apple-trees are common in North America, but no one supposes that the orchard apple is ...
— The Apple-Tree - The Open Country Books—No. 1 • L. H. Bailey

... set out the carefully tended tree, for an apple tree from seed will not be a tree like its parent, but will tend to resemble a more distant ancestor. The distant ancestor that the young apple tree is most likely to take after is the wild apple, which is small, sour, and otherwise far inferior to the fruit we wish to grow. It makes little difference, therefore, what kind of apple seed we plant, since in any event we cannot be sure that the tree grown from it will bear fruit worth having ...
— Agriculture for Beginners - Revised Edition • Charles William Burkett



Words linked to "Wild apple" :   Malus coronaria, Malus ioensis, Malus sylvestris, prairie crab, apple tree, Iowa crab, Oregon crab apple, garland crab, Malus fusca, American crab apple, Iowa crab apple, wild crab, western crab apple



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