medlar fruit
- noun
:
fruto de níspero
- The medlar fruit should be left to blet before it can be eaten.
Examples
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She made a delicious jam using ripe medlar fruit.
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In late autumn, the branches are heavy with medlar fruit.
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I love eating medlar fruit in the summer.
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Have you ever tried medlar fruit?
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In late autumn, the branches are heavy with medlar fruit.
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She made a delicious jam using ripe medlar fruit.
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The medlar fruit should be left to blet before it can be eaten.
Synonyms
A small brown fruit with tough skin and soft sweet inside that people often make into jam
How Ripe
3
2.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'medlar' (a specific kind of fruit) with 'fruit' — it simply names the edible fruit of the medlar tree. This noun+noun compositional pattern is transparent and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand it.
Etymology
Medlar fruit is the small brown fruit of the medlar tree that people traditionally leave after picking to become soft in a process called 'bletting'. People would wait until the flesh was soft and sweet before eating it, so the name brings to mind that soft, ready-to-eat fruit today.