wild medlar

Questions about wild medlar

What does wild medlar mean?

wild medlar means "small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit".

What is another word for wild medlar?

Close synonyms include wild medlar tree, medlar, Vangueria infausta. 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 wild medlar a common word?

wild 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.