Meaning

11 senses
  1. Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica).

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

    Mispel

    мушмула́mušmulá

  3. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:

    Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens: family Rosaceae).

  4. Mediterranean medlar or azarole (Crataegus azarolus: family Rosaceae).

  5. Japanese medlar or loquat (Eriobotrya japonica: family Rosaceae).

  6. Spanish medlar or bulletwood (Mimusops elengi: family Sapotaceae).

  7. African medlar (Vangueria infausta: family Rubiaceae).

  8. Wolfberry, goji, red medlar (Lycium spp.).

  9. The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples

    small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples

  10. 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.

  11. (derogatory)A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance resembles an "open-arse").

Examples

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  1. Ziri sat under a medlar tree.

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  2. Ziri threw the medlar pips away.

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  3. Ziri makes and sells medlar cheese.

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  4. Ziri served us some medlar jelly.

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  5. Ziri makes his own medlar jelly.

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Translations

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Origin

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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Forms

plural: medlars
Singularmedlar
Pluralmedlars

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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