quince
noun/kwɪns/
/kwɪns/
- a hard bitter yellow fruit used for making jam, etc. It grows on a tree, also called a quince.
- quince jelly
- a flowering quince
Word OriginMiddle English (originally a collective plural): from Old French cooin, from Latin (malum) cotoneum, variant of (malum) cydonium ‘apple of Cydonia (= Chania, in Crete)’.
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