Definition of "wild crab" []

• Wild crab apple native to Europe; a chief ancestor of cultivated apples (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "They all lunched together in the shade of a wild crab thicket, with flowers spread at their feet, and the gold orioles streaking the air with flashes of light and trailing ecstasy behind them, while the red-wings, as always, asked the most impertinent questions."