- native quince
- noun
: a small shrubby Australian tree (Petalostigma quadriloculare) that is related to the eucalypts and has a very bitter bark
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Japanese quince — noun deciduous thorny shrub native to China having red or white blossoms • Syn: ↑Chaenomeles speciosa • Hypernyms: ↑flowering quince … Useful english dictionary
maule's quince — noun deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms • Syn: ↑japonica, ↑Chaenomeles japonica • Hypernyms: ↑flowering quince … Useful english dictionary
flowering quince — 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. * * * ▪ plant any shrub of the genus Chaenomeles within the rose family… … Universalium
bitterbark — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : any of several woody plants having bitter bark: as a. Australia (1) : a woody shrub (Alstonia constricta) with a bark sometimes used as a febrifuge (2) … Useful english dictionary
