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Quince

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A quince

a genus of plants including the quince

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A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince Cydonia vulgaris and regarded as a variety of amylose

Islands now introduced into the East and West Indies It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince

A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit as the quince pear apple orange etc boiled with sugar and brought to a jamlike consistency

bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass which is partly receptacle and partly calyx as an apple quince or pear

produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall as in the seeds of quinces of flax etc

A confection of quinces in consistency between a sirup and marmalade

It includes also the plums and cherries meadowsweet brambles the strawberry the hawthorn applies pears service trees and quinces

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