How To Use Medlar In A Sentence

  • If a peach were at its best when it was as rotten as a medlar, one would soon find a dark, wrinkled peach good-looking. TESTIMONIES
  • One of our men had got us a bag full of fruit, -- limes, zapotes, and nisperos, which last are a large kind of medlar, besides a number of other kinds of fruit, which we ate without knowing what they were. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
  • When it comes to dessert, almond tart with yoghurt ice cream or white chocolate and pine kernel semifreddo with cocoa ice-cream might cry out to be tried but consider instead - or have as well - pecorino di fossa, miele di nespolo e mostardo di fico, which is a sheep's milk cheese that has been aged in subterranean stone holes for about three months served with medlar honey and fig mustard; an inspired combination. Evening Standard - Home
  • The fruits, which are about the size of a medlar, and of a triangular form, grow from the shoots of fructification, on long strings of three or four feet. Archive 2008-08-01
  • There were medlars, and apples, and quinces, and cherries, and I think many more that I could not name by their bark or tiny fruit.
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  • Try to resist this description: The medlar, which resembles a russeted crabapple with an open blossom end, is a pome fruit, kin to apples and pears, and most closely related to hawthorns. Lunch Room Chatter: Produce is not downloadable
  • Here are the magnolia, the laurel, the Japanese medlar, the oleander, the pepper, the bay, the date-palm, a tree called the plumbago, another from the Cape of Good The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
  • She's also making preserves; traditional ones such as medlar jelly for serving with game, pear chutney, apple chutney, and lots of her own invention, which she plays around with and perfects. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • Three-course lunch/dinner for two with wine, about £90/£130 including 12.5 per cent service A medlar is a fruit that requires "bletting" to become edible. Evening Standard - Home
  • Generally, one formula includes 40 to 50 types of herbal medicine, such as ginseng, tuckahoe, honey, medlar and tuber of multiflower knotweed.
  • Fruits include the indigenous melons, grapes, mulberries, peaches, apricots, nectarines, and pomegranates, as well as medlars, persimmons, oranges, melons, and sweet lemons.
  • If anyone is living up to my mad poetic manifesto, it's Anna with her posts on quince's bottoms and witchetty grubs, bletted medlars and flatheads. Still Lives
  • After medlars are picked they are stored calyx end down and allowed to overripen. Archive 2008-02-01
  • Latin verb gustare, “to taste;” but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor’s rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • There are plenty of colourful fruits about, including dessert, culinary and crab apples, pears and medlars.
  • The largest is a cherry tree, which is pruned to keep it in check, and there are vines, peaches, medlar and mulberry bushes to provide fruit.
  • Medlar use ladybug control aphids, gall midge and other pests, improve wolfberry fruit quality, grade, insect pest control in the future to lay a good foundation.
  • Three-course lunch/dinner for two with wine, about £90/£130 including 12.5 per cent service A medlar is a fruit that requires "bletting" to become edible. Evening Standard - Home
  • Fred notices that the twisted branches of the medlar look as if they might be dying. SEA MUSIC
  • Even if one becomes homosexual through a gradual development of sexual tastes, the deviance is no more "unnatural" than if one develops a taste for bletted medlars and a dislike for apples. Archive 2009-08-01
  • Latin verb gustare, "to taste;" but Medlar pleaded custom in behalf of C, observing, that, by the Doctor's rule, we ought to change pudding into budding, because it is derived from the French word boudin; and in that case why not retain the original orthography and pronunciation of all the foreign words we have adopted, by which means our language would become a dissonant jargon without standard or propriety? The Adventures of Roderick Random
  • In the back are pots containing a fruit paradise of quinces, medlars, lemons, pomegranates, citrons, even a limequat that apparently makes a mean marmalade.
  • In the back are pots containing a fruit paradise of quinces, medlars, lemons, pomegranates, citrons, even a limequat that apparently makes a mean marmalade.
  • A common peasant fruit was the medlar, a now-forgotten brown fruit that must be dried called bletting before being eaten. The Fruit Hunters
  • Of the two 2007 liqueurs that I decanted today, the bletted medlar one is good but a bit rough. Gillpolack: I have been undertaking quality control
  • There were medlars, and apples, and quinces, and cherries, and I think many more that I could not name by their bark or tiny fruit.
  • I'm making yummy historical edibles as well as encouraging people to drink wine and medlar liqueur. Even in a little thing
  • The tapper and riffler was an agent named Barry Medlar, of the Bureau’s Albany field office. Mary, Mary
  • Japonica, _ in Madeira called the loquat and elsewhere the Japanese medlar: it grows wild in the Brazil, where the people distil from it. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
  • They wanted me to be a schoolchild and ask basic questions, such as 'What is a medlar?' Bernard Radfar: Texting Librarians
  • Fruits include the indigenous melons, grapes, mulberries, peaches, apricots, nectarines, and pomegranates, as well as medlars, persimmons, oranges, melons, and sweet lemons.
  • Of the two 2007 liqueurs that I decanted today, the bletted medlar one is good but a bit rough. Gillpolack: I have been undertaking quality control
  • In the back are pots containing a fruit paradise of quinces, medlars, lemons, pomegranates, citrons, even a limequat that apparently makes a mean marmalade.
  • Apples and pears and medlars hang heavy upon the boughs.
  • Many people believe that medlars should be picked and then kept for a fortnight until they have gone soft or bletted. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • His face was wrinkled and brown, like the exterior of that incomprehensible fruit the medlar, which is never ripe till it is bad, and then it is to be avoided. The Slave of the Lamp
  • Even if one becomes homosexual through a gradual development of sexual tastes, the deviance is no more "unnatural" than if one develops a taste for bletted medlars and a dislike for apples. Archive 2009-08-01
  • In the back are pots containing a fruit paradise of quinces, medlars, lemons, pomegranates, citrons, even a limequat that apparently makes a mean marmalade.

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