See Also: quince(medicine)
quince(dictionary)
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Quince(recipes)
Quince marmalade(recipes)
Quince paste (membrillo)(recipes)
Baked ham with cider and spices, quince and orange sauce(recipes)
Honey and walnut cream with apple and quince slice(recipes)

quince (iou)



quince noun. ME.
[Old French cooin (mod. coing) from late Latin (malum) cotoneum var. of (malum) Cydonium lit. 'apple of Cydonia' (now Canea, in Crete), translating Greek melon kudonion: cf. MELOCOTON.]
The tart yellowish pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga, used to make preserves, to flavour fruit tarts, etc.; the tree bearing this fruit. ME.
With specifying word: (the fruit of) any of several other trees related to or resembling the quince. M19.
BENGAL quince. Japan quince, Japanese quince (the fruit of) the japonica, Chaenomeles speciosa. native quince Austral. a quinine-tree, Petalostigma quadriloculare.
Phrases: get on a person's quince Austral. slang irritate or exasperate a person.
? Orig. a pl. used collect.