a hard, acid pear-shaped fruit used in preserves or as flavouring 榅桲果实
the shrub or small tree which bears this fruit, native to western Asian (原产于西亚的)榅桲,木梨
Cydonia oblonga, family Rosaceae 拉丁名Cydonia oblonga,蔷薇科 ■(Japanese quince). another term for japonica 同 japonica
语源
Middle English (originally a collective plural): from Old French cooin, from Latin (malum) cotoneum, variant of (malum) cydonium 'apple of Cydonia (= Canea, in Crete')