flowering crab

English Thesaurus

1. small tree or shrub of southeastern United States; cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-colored blossoms (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	crab apple, crabapple, cultivated crab apple,
definition	:	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 (noun.plant)

2. derived from the Iowa crab and cultivated for its large double pink blossoms (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	iowa crab, iowa crab apple, malus ioensis, prairie crab, western crab apple,
definition	:	wild crab apple of western United States with fragrant pink flowers (noun.plant)