quince : Idioms & Phrases

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flowering quince

  • noun Asiatic ornamental shrub with spiny branches and pink or red blossoms
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Japan quince

  • (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub (Cydonia, formerly Pyrus, Japonica) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament.
Webster 1913

japanese quince

  • noun deciduous thorny shrub native to China having red or white blossoms
    Chaenomeles speciosa.
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maule's quince

  • noun deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms
    Chaenomeles japonica; japonica.
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quince bush

  • noun small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated
    quince; Cydonia oblonga.
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Quince curculio

  • (Zoöl.), a small gray and yellow curculio (Conotrachelus cratægi) whose larva lives in quinces.
Webster 1913

Quince tree

  • (Bot.), the small tree (Cydonia vulgaris) which produces the quince.
Webster 1913