Greengage

Green′gageˊ

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Noun.

(Bot.)

A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France

Reine Claude

, after the queen of Francis I. See

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Noun.

A species of plum.

greengage ‎(plural greengages)

A plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
  Just where the horse trams trundled across the market was a row of fruit stalls, with fruit blazing in the sun—apples and piles of reddish oranges, small green-gage plums and bananas.

a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin