Medlar

Word MEDLAR
Character 6
Hyphenation med lar
Pronunciations /ˈmedlɘ/

Definitions and meanings of "Medlar"

What do we mean by medlar?

A deciduous European tree (Mespilus germanica) in the rose family, having white flowers and edible apple-shaped fruit. noun

The fruit of this plant, eaten fresh or made into preserves. noun

A small, generally bushy tree, Mespilus Germanica, related to the crab-apple, cultivated in gardens for its fruit. It is wild in central and southern Europe, but was introduced from western Asia. See Mespilus. noun

The fruit of the above tree, resembling a small brown-skinned apple, but with a broad disk at the summit surrounded by the remains of the calyx-lobes. noun

A tree of the genus Mespilus (Mespilus Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay. noun

The loquat. See Loquat. noun

A kind of thorn tree (Cratægus Azarolus); also, its fruit. noun

A tree of the genus Mespilus noun

The fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more properly, blet. noun

Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit noun

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

Crabapple-like fruit used for preserves noun

Small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples noun

Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica)

Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now often Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.

Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit

The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples

(derogatory, intended sexually) A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance mimics an "open-arse")

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The word "medlar" in example sentences

His face was wrinkled and brown, like the exterior of that incomprehensible fruit the medlar, which is never ripe till it is bad, and then it is to be avoided. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

Three-course lunch/dinner for two with wine, about £90/£130 including 12.5 per cent service A medlar is a fruit that requires "bletting" to become edible. ❋ Fay Maschler (2011)

One of our men had got us a bag full of fruit, -- limes, zapotes, and nisperos, which last are a large kind of medlar, besides a number of other kinds of fruit, which we ate without knowing what they were. ❋ Edward Burnett Tylor (N/A)

She's also making preserves; traditional ones such as medlar jelly for serving with game, pear chutney, apple chutney, and lots of her own invention, which she plays around with and perfects. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They wanted me to be a schoolchild and ask basic questions, such as 'What is a medlar?' ❋ Bernard Radfar (2011)

Try to resist this description: The medlar, which resembles a russeted crabapple with an open blossom end, is a pome fruit, kin to apples and pears, and most closely related to hawthorns. ❋ Tim Carman (2010)

Of the two 2007 liqueurs that I decanted today, the bletted medlar one is good but a bit rough. ❋ Gillpolack (2009)

I'm making yummy historical edibles as well as encouraging people to drink wine and medlar liqueur. ❋ Gillpolack (2009)

You'd let people eat whatever they liked, and your major sacrement would consist of chocolate and medlar liquer. ❋ Gillpolack (2009)

Auntie Joan would have loved the medlar experiments. ❋ Gillpolack (2009)

In the garden grew everything necessary for human life: two types of pears, apples (champagne and winter), persimmons, green springtime plums [tkemali], plums, [feijoa], [medlar], figs and two kinds of cherries. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In one pot, as yet unsprouted, are some medlar seeds a friend brought back from Sardinia. ❋ Lindy (2006)

Although I wonder how much that's got to do with the old country name for the medlar fruit which is "dog's ar*e" ... for obvious reasons! ❋ Lindy (2006)

I was so moved by medlar that I spent a day researching the fruit and wrote a story about it. ❋ Michelle Krell Kydd (2008)

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