Толковый словарь английского языка - quince
Quince
quince
noun Etymology: Middle English quynce ~s, plural of coyn, quyn ~, from Anglo-French coign, from Latin cotoneum, alteration cydonium, from Greek kydōnion Date: 14th century the fruit of a central Asian tree (Cydonia oblonga) of the rose family that resembles a hard-fleshed yellow apple and is used especially in preserves, a tree that bears ~s
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n. 1 a hard acid pear-shaped fruit used as a preserve or flavouring. 2 any shrub or small tree of the genus Cydonia, esp. C. oblonga, bearing this fruit. Etymology: ME, orig. collect. pl. of obs. quoyn, coyn, f. OF cooin f. L cotoneum var. of cydoneum (apple) of Cydonia in Crete ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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