Meaning
3 senses(countable)The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated
(countable)The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
Quitte, Quitte, Quittenbaum
айва́ajvá, айва́ajvá
айва́ajvá
(countable, uncountable)A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince.
Examples
12 sentencesZiri grafted the medlar onto quince.
He grafted a pear on the quince.
ruОн привил грушу на айву.
Daniel grows medlars and quince on the same plant.
The fruit of the quince tree is the quince.
ruПлод айвы - айва.
deDie Frucht des Quittenbaums ist die Quitte.
The quince is yellow and has the shape of a pear.
ruАйва жёлтая и по форме как груша.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English quynce, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cFrom Middle English quynce, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from Latin mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).
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Forms
plural: quincesSynonyms
3 synonyms- small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated:quince bushCydonia oblonga
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
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