[kwɪns], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a hard, acid pear-shaped fruit used in preserves or as flavouring
(e.g: quince jelly)

- the shrub or small tree which bears quinces, native to western Asia


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Origin:
Middle English (originally a collective plural): from Old French cooin, from Latin (malum) cotoneum, variant of (malum) cydonium ‘apple of Cydonia (= Chania, in Crete)’