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Meanings of medlar in English

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Fruit.

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Small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples.

nesprer

Small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit.

Usage of medlar in English
1
See where the point juts out beyond the great medlar tree.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 01
2
Pear trees also he grew, and a medlar and a quince.
The Spinners
3
Apple, pear, plum, medlar and quince, and there might be still more varieties.
The great lover
4
Tea was ready, under the shade of the medlar tree.
Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls
5
It was cooler than the beach, and the shade of the old medlar was refreshing.
Esther : a book for girls
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A medlar the fewer on the three-legged medlar-tree!
Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners)
7
And he returned to his dream, pacing slowly from the medlar to the quince and back again.
The Hill of Dreams
8
The mamosho or moshomosho, and milo (a medlar), were to be found near our encampment.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
9
There's a medlar for thee; eat it.
The Life of Timon of Athens
10
And now you see this rotten fruit has come to a head;-thismedlar has got its crown.
Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volum...
11
In the garden behind the quaint old house in which he lives is a large medlar-tree,-thefirst I remember seeing.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
12
A medlar the fewer on the three-legged medlar-tree!- Isay ,DomNicolas, it'll be cold to-nighton the St. Denis Road?
The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1
13
Yes, marry, did I; but I was fain to forswear it: they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.
Measure for Measure
14
A medlar the fewer on the three-legged medlar-tree!- Isay ,DomNicolas, it'll be cold to-nighton the St. Denis Road? he asked.
New Arabian Nights
15
There is a strong flavour of medlar in this fruit, and it is much esteemed for medicinal properties, especially in cases of diarrhoea.
Wild Beasts and Their Ways, Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Afric...
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They made their way through the medlar trees and scrub to the plateau above, and, the height gained, they turned to look back.
Cumner's Son and Other South Sea Folk — Volume 01
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Medlar through the time