medlar

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ripe medlar fruit

Etymology

Via Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (“medlar fruit”), from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon)

Pronunciation

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Noun

medlar (plural medlars)

  1. Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica)
  2. Any tree of the genus Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., now often Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., including many species now in other genera.
  3. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit
    1. Stern's medlar (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.: family Rosaceae)
    2. Mediterranean medlar(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{vern}} with a regular link if already defined. Add novern=1 if not defined.) or azarole (Crataegus azarolus: family Rosaceae)
    3. Japanese medlar(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace {{vern}} with a regular link if already defined. Add novern=1 if not defined.) or loquat (Eriobotrya japonica: family Rosaceae)
    4. Spanish medlar or bulletwood (Mimusops elengi: family Sapotaceae)
    5. African medlar (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.: family Rubiaceae)
    6. Wolfberry, goji, red medlar (Lycium spp.),
  4. The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples
    1. especially that of Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more specifically, to blet.
  5. (derogatory, intended sexually) A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance mimics an "open-arse")
    • c. 1604: Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare
      I was once before him for getting a wench with child....but I was fain to forswear it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.

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Verb

medlar

  1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of medla.

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