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Quince

//kwɪns// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga. countable
  2. 2
    Clipping of quinceañera. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal

    "quince dress"

  3. 3
    aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves wordnet
  4. 4
    The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia. countable
  5. 5
    small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated wordnet
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  1. 6
    A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English quynce, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from Latin mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion).

Etymology 2

Clipping of quinceañera.

Etymology 3

Probably a topographic surname for someone who lived by a quince tree or a metonymic occupational surname for a grower or seller of quinces.

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