Crossword-Solution: MEDLAR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Medlar | n. | A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MEDLAR | anagram | DELMAR, DERMAL, MARDLE, MARLED |
We have 21 clues for the answer “MEDLAR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| crabapple-like fruit used for preserves | 1 answer |
| apple-like fruit of a small tree | 1 answer |
| Tree similar to the apple | 1 answer |
| Small, brown applelike fruit | 1 answer |
| Small brown, bitter, apple-like fruit | 1 answer |
| Relative of a crab apple | 1 answer |
| Loquat | 1 answer |
| Fruit related to apple | 1 answer |
| A small brown applelike fruit | 1 answer |
| Crabapple's cousin. | 1 answer |
| Bitter fruit similar to an apple | 1 answer |
| APPLE-like fruit | 3 answers |
| tree Asia | 6 answers |
| Bitter fruit | 7 answers |
| Tree fruit. | 15 answers |
| Asia tree | 20 answers |
| APPLE RELATIVE | 20 answers |
| EUROPEAN shrub/tree | 24 answers |
| ALMOND relative | 25 answers |
| BALDWIN RELATIVE | 28 answers |
| Apple | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MEDLAR (5)
Matilda Cuvering, with the alert eyes of thirteen years old and the added advantage of an exalted position in the branches of a medlar tree, had enjoyed a good view of the Stossen flanking movement and had foreseen exactly where it would break down in execution.
After all, as every one else is enjoying themselves, I don’t see why Tarquin shouldn’t have an afternoon out.” Matilda was of an age when thought is action; she slid down from the branches of the medlar tree, and when she clambered back again Tarquin, the huge white Yorkshire boar-pig, had exchanged the narrow limits of his stye for the wider range of the grass paddock.
Then it will be the earliest fruit i’ th’ country, for you’ll be rotten ere you be half ripe, and that’s the right virtue of the medlar.
Their Fruit, when ripe, is nearest our Medlar; if eaten before, draws your Mouth up like a Purse, being the greatest Astringent I ever met withal, therefore very useful in some Cases.
When the people of Valennes, Sache, Villaines, and other places, learned the high price given for the maid of Thilouse, the good housewives recognising the fact that nothing is more profitable than virtue, endeavoured to nourish and bring up their daughters virtuous, but the business was as risky as that of rearing silkworms, which are liable to perish, since innocence is like a medlar, and ripens quickly on the straw.
Quotes with MEDLAR (1)
Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of o…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1969–2010).