Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun medlars

1 sense of medlars

Sense 1
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System, MEDLARS -- (relational database of the United States National Library of Medicine for the storage and retrieval of bibliographical information concerning the biomedical literature)
       INSTANCE OF=> relational database -- (a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes; "in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun medlar

4 senses of medlar

Sense 1
wild medlar, wild medlar tree, medlar, Vangueria infausta -- (small deciduous tree of southern Africa having edible fruit)
       => tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Sense 2
medlar, medlar tree, Mespilus germanica -- (small deciduous Eurasian tree cultivated for its fruit that resemble crab apples)
       => fruit tree -- (tree bearing edible fruit)

Sense 3
medlar -- (a South African globular fruit with brown leathery skin and pithy flesh having a sweet-acid taste)
       => edible fruit -- (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Sense 4
medlar -- (crabapple-like fruit used for preserves)
       => edible fruit -- (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)