quince

Meaning of quince

noun

a hard, acid pear-shaped fruit used in preserves or as flavouring.
quince jelly
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.
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Hyphenation of quince

quince

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

Translation of quince

German: Quitte
Spanish: membrillo
Portuguese: marmelo
French: coing
Italian: cotogna

Anagrams of quince

cinque

Words that rhyme with quince

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