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flowering quince

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any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
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Words nearby flowering quince

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How to use flowering quince in a sentence

  • Emerging from the streets, they proceeded towards a pretty hill planted with pink-flowering quince-trees.

    Yiddish Tales|Various

  • The carmine glow of the flowering quince is here, brought from its tropic wilderness.

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