quince
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quince/kwɪns/
▶noun
- 1 a hard, acid, pear-shaped fruit used in preserves or as flavouring.
- 2 the Asian shrub or small tree which bears quinces. [Cydonia oblonga.]
- 3 (Japanese quince) another term for japonica.
– origin ME (orig. a collective pl.): from OFr. cooin, from L. (malum) cotoneum, var. of (malum) cydonium ‘apple of Cydonia (= Chania, in Crete)’.
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