crabapple-like fruit used for preserves South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and sweet-acid pithy flesh small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples
the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay
When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay
[ 'med-l&r ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English medeler, from Middle French medlier, from medle medlar fruit, from Latin mespilum, from Greek mespilon.