quince

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As for the quince, the traditional membrillo recipe involves little more than boiling it up with sugar, a sprinkling of cinnamon and a piece of lemon rind.

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  1. noun A western Asian shrub or tree (Cydonia oblonga) having white flowers and hard applelike fruit.
  2. noun The aromatic, many-seeded fruit of this plant, edible only when cooked.

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  • Peach, quince, and cherry were the three favourite fruit trees in the colonial times, and all three were found in some of the quintas or orchards of the old estancia houses. —  Far Away And Long Ago
  • But we've chosen convenience over flavor in our fruit, so in that sense I am glad that quince are still semi-forgotten and unpopular. —  The Kitchn
  • Add in the fact that quince are hard to find (that element of the hunt, you know), and you can see how I've become more than a little obsessed. —  The Kitchn
  • Olmsted Falls 440.427.8100 quince-restaurant. com Hours: —  Cleveland Scene
  • She can choose a letter and click the image to view and talk about alligators, ibises, the letter "F" and the number four, dragonflies and hummingbirds, "Q" for membrillo (quince), and "M" for Morro Rock, all 26 letters .... —  GotPoetry.com News
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  1. Middle English quynce, pl. of quyn, quince, from Old French cooin, from Latin cotōneum (mālum), quince (fruit), probably variant of cydōnium, from Greek dialectal kudōnion (mālon), alteration (influenced by Kudōniā, Cydonia, an ancient city of northwest Crete) of kodumālon.

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  1. Formerly also quence; from Middle English quence, an extension of quine, apparently orig. plural taken as singular: see quine. Cf. Latin cydonia, plural, quince. Less prob. a reduction of Old French coignasse, the largest kind of quince; from coin, quince: see quine.
  2. Middle English quynce; apparently an abbreviation form of quinsy, quinancy.
 

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