Quince Synonyms

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Small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. quince bush
  2. cydonia-oblonga

Words Related to Quince

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Quince Sentence Examples

  • Digging up some of these quince bushes.

  • The French Paradise is the best dwarfing stock for apples, and the quince for pears.

  • In the same way the physic garden presents the names of the medicinal herbs, and the cemetery (p) those of the trees, apple, pear, plum, quince, &c., planted there.

  • The fruit of the pear is of a higher colour and smaller on the quince stock than on the wild pear; still more so on the medlar.

  • Some of the finer pears do not unite readily with the quince, and in this case double working is resorted to; that is to say, a vigorous-growing pear is first grafted on the quince, and then the choicer pear is grafted on the pear introduced as its foster parent.

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