quince
nounA shrub or small tree (Cydonia oblonga) in the rose family, native to western Asia, having white or pink flowers and hard yellow pear-shaped fruit.
nounThe aromatic, many-seeded fruit of this plant, usually used for jelly or in cooked dishes.
nounSame as
Scrofula.
nounThe fruit of the tree Pyrus Cydonia. (See def. 2.)
nounThe fruit-tree Pyrus Cydonia, sometimes classed as Cydonia vulgaris, the latter genus being based (insufficiently) on the many-seeded cells of the fruit.
nounThe fruit of a shrub (
a quince tree or shrub.
nounan Eastern Asiatic shrub (
a small gray and yellow curculio (