1. Aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves
   "She made a delicious quince jelly from the fruit in her garden"
    
2. Small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated
   "She made quince jelly from the fruit of her old quince bush";
   - quince bush, Cydonia oblonga

Sounds like: quail, quince

Derived forms: quinces

Type of: edible fruit, false fruit, fruit tree, pome

Part of: Cydonia, genus Cydonia

Encyclopedia: Quince, Peter