Usually means: Fruit tree, related to roses.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. medlar: Merriam-Webster
  2. medlar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. medlar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. medlar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. medlar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Medlar, medlar: Wordnik
  7. medlar: Wiktionary
  8. medlar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. medlar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. medlar: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Medlar, medlar: Dictionary.com
  12. medlar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Medlar (disambiguation), Medlar (musician), Medlar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Medlar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. medlar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. medlar: Rhymezone
  17. Medlar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. medlar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. medlar: FreeDictionary.org
  20. medlar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. medlar: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. medlar: Encyclopedia

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  2. medlar: Medical dictionary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (medlar)

noun:  Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica).
noun:  Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.
noun:  Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
noun:  Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens: family Rosaceae).
noun:  Mediterranean medlar or azarole (Crataegus azarolus: family Rosaceae).
noun:  Japanese medlar or loquat (Eriobotrya japonica: family Rosaceae).
noun:  Spanish medlar or bulletwood (Mimusops elengi: family Sapotaceae).
noun:  African medlar (Vangueria infausta: family Rubiaceae).
noun:  Wolfberry, goji, red medlar (Lycium spp.).
noun:  The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples:
noun:  Especially that of Crataegus sect. Mespilus, not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more specifically, to blet.
noun:  (derogatory, intended sexually) A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance resembles an "open-arse").

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