Английский разговорный словарь (основной) - quince
Quince
quince
kwɪns n. 1 a hardacid pear-shaped fruit used as a preserve or flavouring. 2 any shrub or smalltree of thegenus Cydonia, esp. C. oblonga, bearingthis fruit. [ME, orig. collect. pl. of obs. quoyn, coyn, f. OF cooin f. L cotoneum var. of cydoneum (apple) of Cydonia in Crete]