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单词 medlar
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Definition of medlar in English:

medlar

noun ˈmɛdləˈmɛdlər
  • 1A small bushy tree of the rose family.

    Mespilus germanica, family Rosaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The largest is a cherry tree, which is pruned to keep it in check, and there are vines, peaches, medlar and mulberry bushes to provide fruit.
    1. 1.1 The small brown apple-like fruit of the medlar, which is only edible after it has begun to decay.
      欧楂果
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There are plenty of colourful fruits about, including dessert, culinary and crab apples, pears and medlars.
      • There were medlars, and apples, and quinces, and cherries, and I think many more that I could not name by their bark or tiny fruit.
      • Fruits include the indigenous melons, grapes, mulberries, peaches, apricots, nectarines, and pomegranates, as well as medlars, persimmons, oranges, melons, and sweet lemons.
      • Apples and pears and medlars hang heavy upon the boughs.
      • In the back are pots containing a fruit paradise of quinces, medlars, lemons, pomegranates, citrons, even a limequat that apparently makes a mean marmalade.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French medler, from medle 'medlar fruit', from Latin mespila, from Greek mespilē, mespilon.

Rhymes

pedlar

Definition of medlar in US English:

medlar

nounˈmedlərˈmɛdlər
  • 1A small bushy tree of the rose family.

    Mespilus germanica, family Rosaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The largest is a cherry tree, which is pruned to keep it in check, and there are vines, peaches, medlar and mulberry bushes to provide fruit.
    1. 1.1 The small brown apple-like fruit of the medlar, which is only edible after it has begun to decay.
      欧楂果
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Fruits include the indigenous melons, grapes, mulberries, peaches, apricots, nectarines, and pomegranates, as well as medlars, persimmons, oranges, melons, and sweet lemons.
      • There are plenty of colourful fruits about, including dessert, culinary and crab apples, pears and medlars.
      • There were medlars, and apples, and quinces, and cherries, and I think many more that I could not name by their bark or tiny fruit.
      • Apples and pears and medlars hang heavy upon the boughs.
      • In the back are pots containing a fruit paradise of quinces, medlars, lemons, pomegranates, citrons, even a limequat that apparently makes a mean marmalade.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French medler, from medle ‘medlar fruit’, from Latin mespila, from Greek mespilē, mespilon.

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