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quince

  [kwins]
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1. either of two small trees, Cydonia oblonga or C. sinensis, of the rose family, bearing hard, fragrant, yellowish fruit used chiefly for making jelly or preserves.
2. the fruit of such a tree.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME quince, appar. orig. pl. (taken as sing.) of quyne, coyn < MF cooin < L cotōneum, akin to cydōnium < Gk (mêlon) Kydnion quince, lit., (apple) of Cydonia
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quince   (kwĭns)   
n.  
  1. A western Asian shrub or tree (Cydonia oblonga) having white flowers and hard applelike fruit.
  2. The aromatic, many-seeded fruit of this plant, edible only when cooked.

[Middle English quynce, pl. of quyn, quince, from Old French cooin, from Latin cotōneum (mālum), quince (fruit), probably variant of cydōnium, from Greek dialectal kudōnion (mālon), alteration (influenced by Kudōniā, Cydonia, an ancient city of northwest Crete) of kodumālon.]
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Quince

Quince\, n. [Prob. a pl. from OE. quyne, coin, OF. coin, cooin, F. coing, from L. Cydonius a quince tree, as adj., Cydonian, Gr. ? Cydonian, ? ? a quince, fr. ? Cydonia, a city in Crete, ? the Cydonians. Cf. Quiddany.]

1. The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.

2. (Bot.) a quince tree or shrub.

Japan quince (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub (Cydonia, formerly Pyrus, Japonica) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament.

Quince curculio (Zo["o]l.), a small gray and yellow curculio (Conotrachelus crat[ae]gi) whose larva lives in quinces.

Quince tree (Bot.), the small tree (Cydonia vulgaris) which produces the quince.
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Language Translation for : quince
Spanish: membrillo,
German: die Quitte,
Japanese: まるめろ
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quince 
c.1325, pl. of quoyn, from O.Fr. cooin, from L. cotoneum malum "quince fruit," probably a variant of cydonium malum, from Gk. kydonion malon "apple of Kydonia" (modern Khania), ancient seaport city in Crete. The plant is native to Persia, Anatolia, and Greece; the Greeks imported grafts for their native plants from a superior strain in Crete, hence the name. Kodu- was also the Lydian name for the fruit.
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Main Entry: quince
Pronunciation: 'kwin(t)s
Function: noun
: the fruit of a central Asian tree of the genus Cydonia (C. oblonga) that resemblesa hard-fleshed yellow apple; also : the tree
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