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Medlar

noun

Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit. Synonyms: Vangueria infausta, wild medlar, wild medlar tree.

Small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples. Synonyms: medlar tree, Mespilus germanica.

A South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste.

Crabapple-like fruit used for preserves.

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... and intermixed. The pink brick walls caught every ray of sun that fell, and that morning there was a hushed, close heat in it, and a warm breath rose from the strawberry beds, for they were then in full bearing. I was glad enough to get out of the sun when Grace led the way into a walk of medlar-trees and quinces, where the boughs interlaced and formed an alley to a brick summer-house. This summer-house stands in the angle of the south wall, and by it two fig-trees, whose tops you can see from the outside. They ...

— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner

... Mrs. Featly In Ravenscroft's 'recantation play', Dame Dobson; she was also Sylvia in Otway's last comedy, The Atheist, and Lady Medlar in The Factious Citizen. In 1685 she played Isabella in Tate's farcical A Duke and no Duke, and five years later she is billed as the roystering Widow Ranter in Mrs. Behn's posthumous comedy of the same name. ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn

... birds. They ate in all the queerest ways,—like rabbits, like rats, like cats, nibbling, licking, sucking. There was one child who held a bit of rye bread hugged closely to his breast, and was rubbing it with a medlar, as though he were polishing a sword. Some of the little ones crushed in their fists small cheeses, which trickled between their fingers like milk, and ran down inside their sleeves, and they were utterly unconscious of it. They ran and chased each ...

— Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal • Edmondo De Amicis