a hard bitter yellow fruit used for making jam, etc. It grows on a tree, also called a quince 榅桲（果实金黄有涩味，可制果酱） quince jelly 榅桲果冻 a flowering quince 开花的榅桲
Word OriginMiddle English (originally a collective plural): from Old French cooin, from Latin (malum) cotoneum, variant of (malum) cydonium ‘apple of Cydonia (= Chania, in Crete)’.