medlar
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Definition of medlar
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noun
- Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica).
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- Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica).
- Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.
- Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
- Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
- Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
- Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
- Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
- Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
- The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples
- The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples:
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(derogatory)A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance resembles an "open-arse").
“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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Etymology
From Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (“medlar fruit”), from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon). Related to the rare mesple, via Proto-West Germanic *mespilā. Displaced Old English openærs (“open-arse”) (and similar names, from anatomical comparison).
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