Quince, e.g

• Any fruit like an apple or pear
• Fleshy fruit, as a pear
• Juicy fruit
• Apple or quince e.g
• A fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
• Five-seeded fruit
• Apple, e.g
• Apple or pear, e.g

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of fruit in which the often edible flesh arises from the swollen base of the flower and not from the carpels. 2 A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., of types of apples or apple-shaped objects, from Old French pome "apple" (12c., Modern French pomme ), from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *poma "apple," originally Latin pomus "fruit," later "apple" (see Pomona ).