quince
quince is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 39 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Bot.) a quince tree or shrub. Japan quince (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub (Cydonia, formerly Pyrus, Japonica) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament. -- Quince curculio (Zoöl.), a small gray and yellow curculio (Conotrachelus cratægi) whose larva lives in quinces. -- Quince tree (Bot.), the small tree (Cydonia vulgaris) which produces the quince.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aureate
- citrine
- colored
- creamy
- crocus
- fallow
- flavous
- fog
- foot
- fulvid
- fulvous
- gamboge
- golden
- guinea
- icterus
- jaundice
- jaundiced
- lemon
- luteous
- ocher
- orpiment
- primrose
- saffron
- sallow
- sandy
- straw-colored
- tawny
- tint
- topaz
- warm
- xanthic
- xanthin
- xanthocarpous
- xanthochroid
- xanthopous
- xanthous
- yellow
- yellowness
- yolk
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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