Definitions
crabapple-like fruit used for preserves
Word origin
From Middle English medler, medeler, from Old French medler, meslier, from medle, mesdle (“medlar fruit”), from Latin mespilum, from Ancient Greek μέσπιλον (méspilon). Related to the rare mesple, via Proto-West Germanic *mespilā. Displaced Old English openærs (“open-arse”) (and similar names, from anatomical comparison).
Used in a sentence
“I was once before him for getting a wench with child....but I was fain to forswear it; they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Preserve fruit”6 letters
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