quince

Examples

• All

• I am dealing with baskets of quinces, rather than apples... spiced quince butter... now there's a thought!

  Blog text (29)

• Suddenly energized, I walked briskly past the flowering quince beside the cellar door and across the path to the garden shed.

  Fiction book (1993)

• With regret, she left the quince and returned to the house.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The dinner board was spread with the "groaning" cakes we'd spent weeks preparing, with quince, pippin, and damson marmalades.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The magnolias and quince are in bloom, and the forsythia is out, its glad cool yellow calling from every yard like a sudden declaration of the secret sap that runs through everybody's lives.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Shoving that wheelbarrow, cracking quinces, dragging fallen branches from the sprawling oaks, my neighbor spends more of her days outside the house than in.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The quince tree in our backyard produces fragrant flowers every spring.

• He sliced the quince to add to the fruit salad for a unique flavor.

Synonyms

C

Cydonia oblonga

vsquince

• Specialized

9.6

A small Asian tree with pink flowers and pear-shaped fruit used to make jam

is the common everyday name rather than the scientific term

Q

quince bush

vsquince

6.8

A small tree or bush with pink flowers and pear-shaped fruit

is mainly a small tree valued for its edible fruit rather than ornamental form

Compounds

F

flowering quince

8.0

A small Asian shrub with spiny branches and red or pink flowers

M

Maule's quince

9.9

A thorny shrub with bright red flowers grown in gardens

J

Japanese quince

8.7

A bush from China that loses its leaves, has thorns and red or white flowers

Q

quince bush

6.8

A small tree or bush with pink flowers and pear-shaped fruit

Q

quince liqueur

9.3

A strong sweet alcoholic drink made from the quince fruit

Surface Forms

Etymology