What is "quinces"

Usage examples of "quinces".

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.

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.

He now took note that on the balustrade beside Madouc’s elbow rested a bowl of rotten quinces, one of which she held delicately in her hand.

Marcus hardly noticed the waiter as he set the spiced quinces on the table and slipped away.

Wild quinces ripened on their boughs like gold-green lanterns, and scarlet-capped toadstools resembling goblins' caps thrust up from the mold.

I noted that Maisry now seemed more a woman than her own mother, for the wench’s breasts strained against her brown homespun like ripe quinces, whereas Margery’s dried cuds dangled near to her waist.