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Webster 1913 Edition
Greengage
Green′gageˊ
,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 Gage
. Webster 1828 Edition
Greengage
GREE'NGAGE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
greengage
greengage
English
Noun
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.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
Hypernyms
- (Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana): gage
Derived terms
Translations
a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
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