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单词 quince
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Definition of quince in English:

quince

noun kwɪnskwɪns
  • 1A hard, acid pear-shaped fruit used in preserves or as flavouring.

    榅桲果实

    as modifier quince jelly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Arrange the diced quinces in the bottom of each gratin dish.
    • Fruits such as apples, apricots, quinces, figs, pears, cherries, berries, and grapes grew in orchards or the river valleys.
    • Thinly sliced Spanish chorizo was our favorite accompaniment, but the cheese's acidity also makes it a good match for quince paste or dried fruit.
    • Montenebro goat's cheese, valdeon blue cheese along with semi-hard and hard mahon and manchegowere classically served with membrillo, or quince jelly.
    • Favorite sweet treats include Masas surfidas, the term given to many varieties of pastries, and pasta frola, a pastry cake spread with quince preserves, and varieties of fresh fruit, such as grapes and citrus fruits.
    • In Italy, from early times, mustard came to be used to flavour mostarda di frutta, a fruit relish made from quinces or grapes.
    • An uncomplicated salad of arugula and manchego shimmers in its piquant quince dressing.
    • The cheese trolley is filled with Portuguese goat and sheep cheeses, to be eaten with a traditional slice of quince paste.
    • The fruit is sweet enough to eat fresh, though the texture is a lot like other quinces.
    • Place the quince slices as well as the peels and cores into a large sauce pan.
    • Once removed from the heat, as the syrup cooled, the pectin in the fruit encouraged the liquid to be transformed into a lovely quince jelly riddled with dark and aromatic vanilla seeds.
    • This one was served in a small shot glass: a layer of quince compote and a layer of lemon jelly, topped with quince syrup.
    • You can serve them with apple or quince compôte, with cream cheese and raisins, or with yoghurt and honey instead - but just remember that it's Pancake Day, not Wild Experiments With Batter Day.
    • The jam should be high-fruit, low-sugar, and compatible with apple, ie, blackberry or quince rather than raspberry or strawberry.
    • Stilton and pears is another classic combination, as is manchego cheese with slices of quince jelly.
    • The quince has vanished from our kitchens, which is a pity - preserved and spiced quinces taste delicious with cold pork or turkey.
    • It centers on a central ingredient such as eggplant, okra, spinach, quince, celery, or a myriad of other possibilities.
    • Other fruits and vegetables coming through the laboratory with diseases included figs, pears, quinces, raspberries, nectarines, cherries, onions, lettuces, corn, mung beans and pumpkins.
    • Seasonal fruits such as sour cherries, plums, quinces, and grapes are made into thick jam, which is traditionally served to visitors and eaten from a glass jar with a spoon.
    • We had a generous plate of properly chambréd farmhouse cheese, which included Gubeen, St Agur and a hard sheep's cheese served with quince jelly, grapes and figs.
  • 2The shrub or small tree which bears quinces, native to western Asia.

    (原产于西亚的)榅桲,木梨

    Cydonia oblonga, family Rosaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Flowering quince is Chaenomeles, that dense, thorny, spring-blooming shrub that comes in all those incomparably rich and tarty hot colors.
    • In the back are pots containing a fruit paradise of quinces, medlars, lemons, pomegranates, citrons, even a limequat that apparently makes a mean marmalade.
    • Fireblight is a bacterial disease that most commonly attacks apple and crabapple trees, but it also can bother cotoneaster, hawthorn, mountain ash, pear, pyracantha, quince, and service berry.
    • Honeysuckle and quince have nectar rich flowers and fruits follow.
    • You are supposed to be able to throw your hat through the middle of a quince tree without obstruction!
    • The film shows the same patience as the artist, carefully and without comment depicting his step-by-step preparations and techniques as he tries to capture the quince tree and the light shooting through its leaves.
    • There were mangoes and cherries and quinces and apples and apricots and almonds, and beyond the orchards there were thickets of tamarisk and casuarina as well as groves of mulberry trees belonging to the silk farmers.
    • There are no native American quinces but the quince was still at the height of its popularity when Europeans began to settle in America, and immigrants soon began to grow the fruit.
    • Formal beds, divided by paths, probably contained a mixture of fragrant herbs, flowers including honeysuckle and rose, and fruit trees such as mulberry and quince.
    • The gold lasted for barely a year but in the meantime numerous trees were planted in the area: wild acacia, teak, olive, tambotie, beech, ebony, seringa, mimosa and quince.
    • Time to bearing in years typically ranges from two to five for apples and apricots, three to four for peaches, four to six for pears and plums, five to six for quince, and five to seven for sweet cherries.
    • Wall shrubs including pyracantha or ornamental quince can be trained and get less out of control than some vigorous climbers.
    • Important orchard fruits besides olives are oranges and lemons, quinces, figs, cherries, peaches, apricots, plums, pears, apples, almonds, and walnuts.
    • 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.
    • The quince is native to the Caucasus, where wild, bent little trees still grow on the hillsides, but it spread quickly throughout the ancient world, being taken up by the Persians, the Greeks and, of course, the Romans.
    1. 2.1
      another term for japonica

Origin

Middle English (originally a collective plural): from Old French cooin, from Latin (malum) cotoneum, variant of (malum) cydonium 'apple of Cydonia (= Chania, in Crete)'.

Rhymes

chintz, convince, evince, Linz, mince, Port-au-Prince, prince, rinse, since, Vince, wince

Definition of quince in US English:

quince

nounkwinskwɪns
  • 1A hard, acid pear-shaped fruit used in preserves or as flavoring.

    榅桲果实

    as modifier quince jelly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Favorite sweet treats include Masas surfidas, the term given to many varieties of pastries, and pasta frola, a pastry cake spread with quince preserves, and varieties of fresh fruit, such as grapes and citrus fruits.
    • Once removed from the heat, as the syrup cooled, the pectin in the fruit encouraged the liquid to be transformed into a lovely quince jelly riddled with dark and aromatic vanilla seeds.
    • In Italy, from early times, mustard came to be used to flavour mostarda di frutta, a fruit relish made from quinces or grapes.
    • The cheese trolley is filled with Portuguese goat and sheep cheeses, to be eaten with a traditional slice of quince paste.
    • Other fruits and vegetables coming through the laboratory with diseases included figs, pears, quinces, raspberries, nectarines, cherries, onions, lettuces, corn, mung beans and pumpkins.
    • An uncomplicated salad of arugula and manchego shimmers in its piquant quince dressing.
    • Seasonal fruits such as sour cherries, plums, quinces, and grapes are made into thick jam, which is traditionally served to visitors and eaten from a glass jar with a spoon.
    • You can serve them with apple or quince compôte, with cream cheese and raisins, or with yoghurt and honey instead - but just remember that it's Pancake Day, not Wild Experiments With Batter Day.
    • Arrange the diced quinces in the bottom of each gratin dish.
    • The quince has vanished from our kitchens, which is a pity - preserved and spiced quinces taste delicious with cold pork or turkey.
    • Thinly sliced Spanish chorizo was our favorite accompaniment, but the cheese's acidity also makes it a good match for quince paste or dried fruit.
    • Fruits such as apples, apricots, quinces, figs, pears, cherries, berries, and grapes grew in orchards or the river valleys.
    • This one was served in a small shot glass: a layer of quince compote and a layer of lemon jelly, topped with quince syrup.
    • It centers on a central ingredient such as eggplant, okra, spinach, quince, celery, or a myriad of other possibilities.
    • Montenebro goat's cheese, valdeon blue cheese along with semi-hard and hard mahon and manchegowere classically served with membrillo, or quince jelly.
    • Place the quince slices as well as the peels and cores into a large sauce pan.
    • Stilton and pears is another classic combination, as is manchego cheese with slices of quince jelly.
    • The jam should be high-fruit, low-sugar, and compatible with apple, ie, blackberry or quince rather than raspberry or strawberry.
    • The fruit is sweet enough to eat fresh, though the texture is a lot like other quinces.
    • We had a generous plate of properly chambréd farmhouse cheese, which included Gubeen, St Agur and a hard sheep's cheese served with quince jelly, grapes and figs.
  • 2The shrub or small tree that bears the quince fruit, native to western Asia.

    (原产于西亚的)榅桲,木梨

    Cydonia oblonga, family Rosaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There were mangoes and cherries and quinces and apples and apricots and almonds, and beyond the orchards there were thickets of tamarisk and casuarina as well as groves of mulberry trees belonging to the silk farmers.
    • Formal beds, divided by paths, probably contained a mixture of fragrant herbs, flowers including honeysuckle and rose, and fruit trees such as mulberry and quince.
    • In the back are pots containing a fruit paradise of quinces, medlars, lemons, pomegranates, citrons, even a limequat that apparently makes a mean marmalade.
    • The quince is native to the Caucasus, where wild, bent little trees still grow on the hillsides, but it spread quickly throughout the ancient world, being taken up by the Persians, the Greeks and, of course, the Romans.
    • 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.
    • Time to bearing in years typically ranges from two to five for apples and apricots, three to four for peaches, four to six for pears and plums, five to six for quince, and five to seven for sweet cherries.
    • Flowering quince is Chaenomeles, that dense, thorny, spring-blooming shrub that comes in all those incomparably rich and tarty hot colors.
    • Fireblight is a bacterial disease that most commonly attacks apple and crabapple trees, but it also can bother cotoneaster, hawthorn, mountain ash, pear, pyracantha, quince, and service berry.
    • Honeysuckle and quince have nectar rich flowers and fruits follow.
    • There are no native American quinces but the quince was still at the height of its popularity when Europeans began to settle in America, and immigrants soon began to grow the fruit.
    • Important orchard fruits besides olives are oranges and lemons, quinces, figs, cherries, peaches, apricots, plums, pears, apples, almonds, and walnuts.
    • The gold lasted for barely a year but in the meantime numerous trees were planted in the area: wild acacia, teak, olive, tambotie, beech, ebony, seringa, mimosa and quince.
    • You are supposed to be able to throw your hat through the middle of a quince tree without obstruction!
    • Wall shrubs including pyracantha or ornamental quince can be trained and get less out of control than some vigorous climbers.
    • The film shows the same patience as the artist, carefully and without comment depicting his step-by-step preparations and techniques as he tries to capture the quince tree and the light shooting through its leaves.
    1. 2.1
      another term for japonica

Origin

Middle English (originally a collective plural): from Old French cooin, from Latin (malum) cotoneum, variant of (malum) cydonium ‘apple of Cydonia (= Chania, in Crete)’.

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