Definitions for medlars

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medlars med·lar

Spelling: [med-ler]

IPA: /ˈmɛd lər/

Medlars is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 309 anagrams from letters in medlars (adelmrs).

Definitions for medlars

noun

1. a small tree, Mespilus germanica, of the rose family, the fruit of which resembles a crab apple and is not edible until the early stages of decay.
2. any of certain related trees.
3. the fruit of any of these trees.

Origin of medlars

1325-75; Middle English medler Anglo-French, equivalent to medle (Old French mesle the fruit Latin mespilum Greek méspilon) + -er -er²

Examples for medlars

Then there came a jungle of nettle-trees, medlars and jujube trees, which pomegranates skirted with never-fading verdure.

There are quinces and medlars and plums with plenty of fruit, and Morello cherries; but few apples.

Opposite his mother in the cab going home, Val tasted the after-fruits of heroism, like medlars over-ripe.

In every hedge we passed were medlars, plumbs, cherries, and maples with vines trained to them.

If kept till they are soft, in the same way as medlars, they have an agreeable acid flavour.

If your wish had proved true, no doubt but your orchard would have rendered you store of medlars.

Then let us leave off hanging ourselves and our children from its branches like medlars.

Each of them carried some of the flesh of the kids, a dozen medlars, and a melon.