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noun 
  1. The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
  2. The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
Translations: 
  • French: coings
  • German: Quitte
  • Italian: melocotogno
    (trans-mid)
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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