apricot vs medlar

apricot

noun
  • A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit. 

  • The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill. 

  • A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside. 

  • The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca 

  • A dog with an orange-coloured coat. 

adj
  • Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot. 

medlar

noun
  • The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples 

  • Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens: family Rosaceae) 

  • Wolfberry, goji, red medlar (Lycium spp.), 

  • especially that of Crataegus sect. Mespilus, not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more specifically, to blet. 

  • Japanese medlar or loquat (Eriobotrya japonica: family Rosaceae) 

  • Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica) 

  • African medlar (Vangueria infausta: family Rubiaceae) 

  • A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance mimics an "open-arse") 

  • Mediterranean medlar or azarole (Crataegus azarolus: family Rosaceae) 

  • Spanish medlar or bulletwood (Mimusops elengi: family Sapotaceae) 

  • Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera. 

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