Quince Definition

kwĭns
quinces
noun
quinces
A golden or greenish-yellow, hard, apple-shaped fruit of a small tree (Cydonia oblonga) of the rose family, used in preserves.
Webster's New World
The aromatic, many-seeded fruit of this plant, usually used for jelly or in cooked dishes.
American Heritage
The tree.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Quince

Noun

Singular:
quince
Plural:
quinces

Origin of Quince

  • 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

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

  • From Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum < mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple"), translating Ancient Greek μήλον κυδώνιον (melon kudonion).

    From Wiktionary

Quince Sentence Examples

  • Digging up some of these quince bushes.

  • The French Paradise is the best dwarfing stock for apples, and the quince for pears.

  • In the same way the physic garden presents the names of the medicinal herbs, and the cemetery (p) those of the trees, apple, pear, plum, quince, &c., planted there.

  • 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.

  • Some of the finer pears do not unite readily with the quince, and in this case double working is resorted to; that is to say, a vigorous-growing pear is first grafted on the quince, and then the choicer pear is grafted on the pear introduced as its foster parent.

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