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Medlar   /mˈɛdlər/   Listen
Medlar

noun
1.
Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit.  Synonyms: Vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree.
2.
Small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples.  Synonyms: medlar tree, Mespilus germanica.
3.
A South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste.
4.
Crabapple-like fruit used for preserves.



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"Medlar" Quotes from Famous Books



... it with you, and then I shall graff it with a Medlar; then it will be the earliest fruit in the country, for you'll be rotten ere you be half ripe, and that's the ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe


Words linked to "Medlar" :   fruit tree, Vangueria, edible fruit, genus Mespilus, wild medlar, Mespilus, genus Vangueria, tree


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