medlar

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica).
2. Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.
3. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
4. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
5. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
6. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
7. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
8. Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit:
9. The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples
10. The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples:
11. (derogatory) A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance resembles an "open-arse").

Konzepte

Mispel

deutsche Mispel

echte Mispel

Mespilus Germanica

Aspele

Hespel

Medlar

Mispelstrauch

Nespel

Synonyme

wild medlar

wild medlar tree

Mespilus germanica

Vangueria infausta

loquat

medlar tree

naseberry

Chinese wolfberry

common medlar

nisberry

Übersetzungen

nèfle

nespola

níspero

muşmula

nêspera

néflier

mispel

nespolo

Mespilus germanica

nespra

μούσμουλο

μουσμουλιά

nespolo comune

nespla

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈmɛdlə/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: medler

In summary

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).