Usually means: Fruit, related to apples, pears.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word quince:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. quince: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quince: Merriam-Webster
  3. quince: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quince: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quince: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quince: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quince, quince: Wordnik
  8. quince: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quince: Wiktionary
  10. quince: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quince: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quince: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. quince: Dictionary.com
  14. quince: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Quince (disambiguation), Quince (restaurant), Quince: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quince: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quince: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quince: Rhymezone
  19. Quince, quince: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. quince: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Quince: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. quince: FreeDictionary.org
  23. quince: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. quince: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. quince: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quince: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. quince: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. quince: Medical dictionary
  4. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)
  2. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Quince: HYPP Zoology

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quince: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Quince: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BBC Food Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) The pear-shaped fruit of a small tree of the rose family, Cydonia oblonga.
noun:  (countable) The deciduous tree bearing such fruit, native to Asia.
noun:  A soft yellow colour, like that of a quince.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (informal) Clipping of quinceañera. [(chiefly US) The fifteenth birthday and particularly the celebration and ceremony surrounding it for a young Latina woman.]

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