Crossword clues for quince
quince
- Preserves fruit
- Marmalade fruit
- It might be in a jam
- Small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit
- Widely cultivated
- Aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves
- Question replacement of nice fruit tree
- Question concerned with church bears fruit
- One of five at the present time can afford fruit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quince \Quince\ (kw[i^]ns), n. [Prob. a pl. from OE. quyne, coin, OF. coin, cooin, F. coing, from L. Cydonius a quince tree, as adj., Cydonian, Gr. ? Cydonian, ? ? a quince, fr. ? Cydonia, a city in Crete, ? the Cydonians. Cf. Quiddany.]
The fruit of a shrub ( Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.
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(Bot.) a quince tree or shrub.
Japan quince (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub ( Cydonia Japonica, formerly Pyrus Japonica) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament.
Quince curculio (Zo["o]l.), a small gray and yellow curculio ( Conotrachelus crat[ae]gi) whose larva lives in quinces.
Quince tree (Bot.), the small tree ( Cydonia vulgaris) which produces the quince.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., plural of quoyn, from Old French cooin (Modern French coing), from Vulgar Latin codoneum, from Latin cotoneum malum "quince fruit," probably a variant of cydonium malum, from Greek kydonion malon "apple of Kydonia" (modern Khania), ancient seaport city in Crete.\n
\nThe plant is native to Persia, Anatolia, and Greece; the Greeks imported grafts for their native plants from a superior strain in Crete, hence the name. Kodu- also was the Lydian name for the fruit. Italian cotogno, German Quitte, etc. all are ultimately from the Greek word.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, ''Cydonia oblonga''. 2 The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
WordNet
n. small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated [syn: quince bush, Cydonia oblonga]
aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves
Wikipedia
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Quince - Cydonia oblonga Mill.
]] The quince (; Cydonia oblonga) is the sole member of the genus Cydonia in the family Rosaceae (which also contains apples and pears, among other fruits). It is a small deciduous tree that bears a pome fruit, similar in appearance to a pear, and bright golden-yellow when mature. Throughout history the cooked fruit has been used as food, but the tree is also grown for its attractive pale pink blossoms and other ornamental qualities.
The tree grows high and wide. The fruit is long and across.
It is native to rocky slopes and woodland margins in South-West Asia, Turkey and Iran although it can be grown successfully at latitudes as far north as Scotland. It should not be confused with its relatives, the Chinese quince, Pseudocydonia sinensis, or the flowering quinces of genus Chaenomeles, either of which are sometimes used as culinary substitutes.
The immature fruit is green with dense grey-white pubescence, most of which rubs off before maturity in late autumn when the fruit changes color to yellow with hard, strongly perfumed flesh. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, long, with an entire margin and densely pubescent with fine white hairs. The flowers, produced in spring after the leaves, are white or pink, across, with five petals.
Quince is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including brown-tail, Bucculatrix bechsteinella, Bucculatrix pomifoliella, Coleophora cerasivorella, Coleophora malivorella, green pug and winter moth.
Four other species previously included in the genus Cydonia are now treated in separate genera. These are Pseudocydonia sinensis and the three flowering quinces of eastern Asia in the genus Chaenomeles. Another unrelated fruit, the bael, is sometimes called the "Bengal quince".
The Quince is the sole member of the genus Cydonia.
Quince may also refer to:
Usage examples of "quince".
John Quince pulled back, hard, and Bowser flailed for a moment, then dug his heels in and heaved back.
There were garnet-red cherries, peridot grapes, apples like great rubies streaked with gold and amber, amethyst blueberries, strawberries glowing like pink charcoal, yellow pears of topaz, lucid gooseberries of translucent green quartz, quinces still on their twigs, melons, pomegranates, polished damsons, figs like blushing drops of jade.
Gerard had had to exist for four days on two biscuits and a pot of quince jelly which his hostess, Mrs Wiseman, happened to have in her hand as the poursuivants burst in and he was bundled away.
The penultimate course was presented-tiny tartlets filled with quince and nuts, and fragrant cheeses with toasted slivers of bread-and Javan gradually began to relax a little.
Pour le meme motif, ont ete condamnes a quince ans de travaux forces: Hermann CAPIAU, Ingenieur a Wasmes.
The staples were wheat and rice from the original Anatolian agricultural package, but supplemented by quince originally from the Caucasus, millet from Central Asia, cucumber, sesame, and citrus fruit from India, and apricots and peaches from China.
The quince and apple trees stood almost leafless now, the pear boughs had long since stretched naked against the sky, but beside them, as a windbreak, stood a line of ancient candlebark gum trees, as green as ever.
There were quinces and lemons and pale mauve citrons, pearl nuts and fanworts and pumpkins of gold.
On a pine trunk that had been dragged into the centre of the room I had laid out tarte armandine, cherry clafoutie, beignettes, raghif alsiniyyeh, muhallabia, quince compote, Towcester cheesecakes, toast: wholemeal and white, strawberry jam, apple jam, coffee and tea.
But Quince stood firm, and arguing the matter, we reached the corrals and penned the band.
Suspended in rows above his head were figs, pomegranates, quinces and canary-yellow winter melons with green veins.
The quinces, pomegranates and melons piled on the shelves rolled all over the place and bounced as far as the table.
South American plant, this botanical insecticide was discovered in the early 1940s and has proved good for control of codling moths in apple, pear and quince trees.
Al principio, no me favorecieron las cartas, pero después, a pesar de mis admoniciones paternas, Goliadkin perdió todo su dinero: trescientos quince pesos y cuarenta centavos, que los polizontes me han substraído arbitrariamente.
Renovales, que no tiene ni el rudimento, me retó desde la vereda porque Paja Brava carecía de quince centavos que había descuidado en el chaleco mientras pasaba al fondo, y todos calumniaban que yo los había invertido en Laponias.