melocoton

See also: melocotón

English

Alternative forms

• malacatoon
• malacotoon
• malacotune
• malakatoon
• melocotoon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish melocotón (“a kind of peach tree and its fruit”), from Latin malum cotonium (“a quince, or quince tree”), literally "apple of Cydonia".

Noun

melocoton (plural melocotons)

1. A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow.
2. A quince.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “melocoton”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)