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MEDLARS

noun
1.
Relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature.  Synonym: Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System.


Medlar

noun
1.
Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit.  Synonyms: Vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree.
2.
Small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples.  Synonyms: medlar tree, Mespilus germanica.
3.
A South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste.
4.
Crabapple-like fruit used for preserves.



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"Medlars" Quotes from Famous Books



... they could forget perfectly. They laughed, and went to the meal provided. 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, ...
— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence
... huge basket strapped to his forehead. He was also equipped with a wooden platter for the display of samples of his stock; and it must be said the medlars, oranges, figs of Smyrna, and the luscious green grapes in enormous clusters freshly plucked in the vineyards on the Asiatic shore over against the Isles of the Princes, were very tempting; especially so as the hour was when the whole world acknowledges the utility of lunching ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... returned home the next day, she found the plants of her sisters withered away, because they had disobeyed their father. Now the window in the room of the eldest overlooked the gardens of the king, and when she saw how fine and ripe the medlars were on the trees, she longed to eat some, and begged Maria to scramble down by a rope and pick her a few, and she would draw her up again. Maria, who was good-natured, swung herself into the garden by the rope, and got the medlars, and was just making ...
— The Crimson Fairy Book • Various


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