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quince
noun
The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family,
Cydonia oblonga
.
The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
Translations:
French: coings
German: Quitte
Italian: melocotogno
(
trans-mid
)
Etymology:
From Old French
cooin
(modern
coing
), from late Latin
malum cotoneum, (malum) cotoneum
, a variant of
malum Cydonium
"Cydonian apple", translating Greek .
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