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quince

Meaning of quince

noun
  1. a hard, acid pear-shaped fruit used in preserves or as flavouring.
    quince jelly
  2. the shrub or small tree which bears quinces, native to western Asia.

Middle English (originally a collective plural): from Old French cooin, from Latin (malum) cotoneum, variant of (malum) cydonium ‘apple of Cydonia (= Chania, in Crete)’.

Information about quince

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of quince is: quinces.

Hyphenation of quince

quince

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 letters.
  • quince is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Translation of quince