medlar
Mespilus germanica, common medlarMespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica).
» How much medlar can we get from this tree?
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Значение
значений: 11Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica).
Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.
Mispel
мушмула́mušmulá
Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens: family Rosaceae).
Mediterranean medlar or azarole (Crataegus azarolus: family Rosaceae).
Japanese medlar or loquat (Eriobotrya japonica: family Rosaceae).
Spanish medlar or bulletwood (Mimusops elengi: family Sapotaceae).
African medlar (Vangueria infausta: family Rubiaceae).
Wolfberry, goji, red medlar (Lycium spp.).
The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples
small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples
The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples:
Especially that of Crataegus sect. Mespilus, not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more specifically, to blet.
(пренебрежительное)A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance resembles an "open-arse").
Примеры
предложений: 114How much medlar can we get from this tree?
Сколько мушмулы можно получить с этого дерева?
Ziri sat under a medlar tree.
Ziri threw the medlar pips away.
Ziri makes and sells medlar cheese.
Ziri served us some medlar jelly.
Переводы
языков: 8По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
From Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (From Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (“medlar fruit”), from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon). Related to the rare mesple, via Proto-West Germanic *mespilā. Displaced Old English openærs (“open-arse”) (and similar names, from anatomical comparison).
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Формы
мн. число: medlarsСинонимы
синонимов: 6- small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples:medlar treeMespilus germanica
- small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit:wild medlarwild medlar treeVangueria infausta