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Bitter fruit similar to an apple
Answer for the clue "Bitter fruit similar to an apple ", 6 letters:
medlar
Alternative clues for the word medlar
- Small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples
- Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit
- Crabapple-like fruit used for preserves
- Apple-like fruit
- Applelike fruit
- South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and sweet-acid pithy flesh
- Small brown, bitter, apple-like fruit
- Tree similar to the apple
Word definitions for medlar in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small fruit-bearing tree," mid-14c. (in reference to the fruit itself), from Old French medler , variant of mesple, from Latin mespila "fruit of the medlar," from Greek mespilion , a foreign word of unknown origin. The Old English name was openærs , literally ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit [syn: wild medlar , wild medlar tree , Vangueria infausta ] small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples [syn: medlar tree , Mespilus germanica ] South African ...
Usage examples of medlar.
The medlar, the fruit of the mespilus tree, is only edible when rotten.
There was more to consider: for I was not averse to the possibility of gaining revenge upon the necrophile witch for my sakes, those of Lance Medlar and his ill-starred parents, of Kostos and of a woman whose name I shall never know, but whose methodically flayed and preserved body I shall always remember.
Matilda slipped down from the tree, took possession of the donation, and proceeded to pick up a handful of over-ripe medlars from the grass at her feet.
Enkidu accepted the platter and maneuvered it onto his lap, admiring its gleaming abundance: yellow apricots and purple plums, medlars and bananas, and even a decanter of spiced palm wine.
Opposite his mother in the cab going home, Val tasted the afterfruits of heroism, like medlars over-ripe.
As it was, he would have had to partake of thirty pair of such dishes as roast capons and partridges, civet of hare, meat and fish aspics, lark pasties and rissoles of beef marrow, black puddings and sausages, lampreys and savory rice, entremet of swan, peacock, bitterns, and heron “borne on high,” pasties of venison and small birds, fresh and salt-water fish with a gravy of shad “the color of peach blossom,” white leeks with plovers, duck with roast chitterlings, stuffed pigs, eels reversed, frizzled beans-finishing off with fruit wafers, pears, comfits, medlars, peeled nuts, and spiced wine.
From dry distillation of the branches and heartwood of Juniperus oxycedrus, the Prickly Cedar or Medlar Tree, a large shrub, 10 to 12 feet high, with brownish-black berries the size of a hazel nut, native of the south of France, and occasionally from that of J.
Here are the magnolia, the laurel, the Japanese medlar, the oleander, the pepper, the bay, the date-palm, a tree called the plumbago, another from the Cape of Good Hope, the pomegranate, the elder in full leaf, the olive, salvia, heliotrope.
There was a venison pasty, of all things, a large broad-faced cut ham, eggs and cresses and red beet-root, and medlars and apple-tart, and tea.