Medlar Definition

mĕdlər
noun
A small tree (Mespilus germanica) of the rose family, growing in Europe and Asia.
Webster's New World
Its small, brown, applelike fruit, hard and bitter when ripe and eaten or used in preserves when partly decayed.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • Vangueria infausta
  • wild medlar tree
  • wild medlar
  • medlar tree
  • Mespilus germanica

Other Word Forms of Medlar

Noun

Singular:
medlar
Plural:
medlars

Origin of Medlar

  • Middle English medler from Old French meslier, medler from mesle, medle fruit of the medlar from Late Latin mespila from Greek mespilē

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Via Middle English from Old French medler, from medle (“medlar fruit"), from Latin mespila, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (mespilon)

    From Wiktionary

Medlar Sentence Examples

  • Of native fruits the misple (Vangueria infausta), miscalled the wild medlar, is of excellent flavour.

  • The astringency renders the fruit somewhat unpalatable, but after it has been subjected to the action of frost, or has become partially rotted or "bletted" like a medlar, its flavour is improved.

  • Of these the apple and the pear are now very inferior in Corfu; the others thrive well and are accompanied by all the fruit trees known in southern Europe, with addition of the Japanese medlar (or loquat), and, in some spots, of the banana.

  • The fruit of the pear is of a higher colour and smaller on the quince stock than on the wild pear; still more so on the medlar.

  • Of fruit trees the apple, pear, plum, cherry, medlar, pomegranate, fig, quince, as well as two kinds of vine, grow wild; oranges, sweet and bitter, and other Aurantiaceae thrive well in gardens and plantations.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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