japanese medlar

Questions about japanese medlar

What does japanese medlar mean?

japanese medlar means "evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan".

What is another word for japanese medlar?

Close synonyms include loquat, loquat tree, Japanese plum, Eriobotrya japonica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is japanese medlar a common word?

japanese medlar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.