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crabtree

crabtree is the alternative form of crab tree.

Meaning of crab tree

Noun

crab tree (plural crab trees)

  1. A tree that bears wild apples.

Proper noun capitalized: Crabtree

Crabtree (countable and uncountable, plural Crabtrees)

  1. A suburb of the City of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5156).
  2. A hamlet in Lower Beeding parish, Horsham district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ2225).
  3. A rural locality in Huon Valley council area, Tasmania, Australia.
  4. A municipality in the region of Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada.
  5. An unincorporated community in Fresno County, California.
  6. An unincorporated community in Haywood County, North Carolina.
  7. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Linn County, Oregon.
  8. A census-designated place in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
  9. A habitational surname.

Forms of crabtree

Noun
pluralcrabtrees
Proper noun
pluralCrabtrees

Origin of crabtree

From crabtree.

Words formed from crabtree

Phrases with crabtree

Questions about crabtree

What does crabtree mean?
Crabtree means a suburb of the City of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5156).
What is crabtree the alternative form of?
Crabtree is the alternative form of crab tree.
What part of speech is crabtree?
Crabtree is a proper noun.

Words near crabtree in the dictionary

  1. crabspiders
  2. crabstick
  3. crabsticks
  4. crabstone
  5. crabstones
  6. crabtree
  7. Crabtree effect
  8. Crabtree effects
  9. crabtrees
  10. crabwalk
  11. crabwalked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crabtree (page history and authors); Crabtree (page history and authors); crab tree (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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