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–noun

any of several varieties of light-green plums, as Prunus insititia italica.

[Origin: 1715–25; green + Gage, after Sir William Gage, 18th-century English botanist who introduced such varieties from France ca. 1725

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green·gage Audio Help (grēn'gāj') Pronunciation Key
n. A variety of plum (Prunus domestica) having yellowish-green skin and sweet flesh.

[green + gage, after Sir William Gage (1656?-1727), English botanist.]

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greengage
noun
sweet green or greenish-yellow variety of plum

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ˈgreengage [-geidʒ] noun

a greenish-yellow type of plum

Arabic:	إجاص أخْضَر، خَوخ
Chinese (Simplified):	青梅
Chinese (Traditional):	青梅
Czech:	ryngle
Danish:	reineclaudeblomme
Estonian:	renklood
Finnish:	viherluumu
French:	reine-claude
German:	die Reineclaude
Greek:	πράσινο δαμάσκηνο
Hungarian:	ringló
Icelandic:	plómuafbrigði
Indonesian:	buah plum hijau
Italian:	susina regina Claudia*
Japanese:	西洋すもも

Korean:	서양 자두의 일종
Latvian:	renklode (plūmju šķirne)
Lithuanian:	renklodas
Norwegian:	reineclaudeplomme
Polish:	renkloda
Portuguese (Brazil):	ameixa rainha Cláudia
Portuguese (Portugal):	rainha-cláudia
Romanian:	renglotă
Russian:	ренклод
Slovak:	ringlota
Slovenian:	ringlo
Spanish:	ciruela claudia
Swedish:	renklo
Turkish:	frenk eriği, can eriği

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Greengage

Gage\, n. [So called because an English family named Gage imported the greengage from France, in the last century.] A variety of plum; as, the greengage; also, the blue gage, frost gage, golden gage, etc., having more or less likeness to the greengage. See Greengage.

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