medlar

Noun

• crabapple-like fruit used for preserves

• a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste

• small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples

• small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  medlar tree , Mespilus germanica , wild medlar , wild medlar tree , Vangueria infausta