The round pear-shaped fruit of the quince tree The flesh tastes somewhat like a cross between an apple and a pear Popular in jams, jellies, and preserves, this fruit is normally better for cooking than for eating out-of-hand
The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple
aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated Something having the form of a quill The fold or plain of a ruff
A quince is a hard yellow fruit. Quinces are used for making jelly or jam. a hard yellow fruit like a large apple, used in cooking (Plural of coyn, quyn (14-16 centuries), from coin, from cotoneum, cydoneum (malum) , from Kydonia , ancient city in Crete). Any of the fruit shrubs and small trees that make up the genus Cydonia, in the rose family. Common quince (C. oblonga) is native to Iran, Turkey, and perhaps Greece and the Crimea. The raw golden-yellow fruit has a strong fragrant aroma and astringent taste; it takes on a pink colour when cooked and makes an excellent preserve. The Japanese quince (Chaenomeles species) is an ornamental shrub widely used for its flowers, which appear on the tightly branched stems before the leaves open fully in late winter and early spring
This yellow-skinned fruit looks and tastes like a cross between an apple and a pear Its texture and flavor make it better cooked than raw Its high pectin content make it ideal for use in jams, jellies, and preserves
() From Old French cooin (modern coing), from late Latin (malum) cotoneum, a variant of malum Cydonium ‘Cydonian apple’, translating Greek μήλον κυδώνιον.