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Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (computerized index system of the US National Library of Medicine)

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Words nearby MEDLARS

medium strip, medium wave, medius, medivac, medlar, MEDLARS, Med. Lat., medley, medley relay, MEDLINE, Médoc

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

How to use MEDLARS in a sentence

In every hedge we passed were medlars, plumbs, cherries, and maples with vines trained to them.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney
If your wish had proved true, no doubt but your orchard would have rendered you store of medlars.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays|Robert Dodsley
Opposite his mother in the cab going home, Val tasted the after-fruits of heroism, like medlars over-ripe.
The Forsyte Saga, Complete|John Galsworthy
They knew how to graft medlars on coffee trees, which then produced an entirely new fruit, exceedingly luscious and fragrant.
Pretty Michal|Mr Jkai

Here and there were very tall myrtles, and the quince, and obsolete medlars, were discoverable among the other fruit-trees.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu