Quince
[kwins] /kwɪns/
noun
1.
either of two small trees, Cydonia oblonga or C. sinensis, of the rose family, bearing hard, fragrant, yellowish fruit used chiefly for making jelly or preserves.
2.
the fruit of such a tree.
/kwɪns/
noun
1.
a small widely cultivated Asian rosaceous tree, Cydonia oblonga, with pinkish-white flowers and edible pear-shaped fruits
2.
the acid-tasting fruit of this tree, much used in preserves
3.
Also Japanese or flowering quince another name for japonica
n.
early 14c., plural of quoyn, from Old French cooin (Modern French coing), from Vulgar Latin codoneum, from Latin cotoneum malum “quince fruit,” probably a variant of cydonium malum, from Greek kydonion malon “apple of Kydonia” (modern Khania), ancient seaport city in Crete.
The plant is native to Persia, Anatolia, and Greece; the Greeks imported grafts for their native plants from a superior strain in Crete, hence the name. Kodu- also was the Lydian name for the fruit. Italian cotogno, German Quitte, etc. all are ultimately from the Greek word.
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