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say it: MED-lur
medlar is a noun meaning "small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit". It carries 4 recorded senses.
small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit
small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples
a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste
crabapple-like fruit used for preserves
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for medlar come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.