Definitions | quince |
| noun
- The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
- The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
Translations: - French: coings
- German: Quitte
- Italian: melocotogno
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Etymology: From Old French cooin (modern coing), from late Latin malum cotoneum, (malum) cotoneum, a variant of malum Cydonium "Cydonian apple", translating Greek .
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