Medlar (disambiguation)
Medlar is a small tree (Mespilus germanica) cultivated for its edible fruits
Medlar may also refer to:
Plants
- Mespilus canescens, a close relative of the cultivated medlar, in family Rosaceae
- Crataegus azarolus, azarole, also called Mediterranean medlar, in family Rosaceae
- Eriobotrya japonica, the Japanese medlar or loquat, formerly called Mespilus japonica, in family Rosaceae
- Mimusops elengi, also called Bullet wood, native to Asia and Australia, in family Sapotaceae
- Vangueria infausta, the African medlar, in family Rubiaceae
- Wolfberry, (Lycium species), also called red medlar, in family Solanaceae
Places
- A place in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, a baseball stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania
- Medlar Conservation Area, in Montgomery County, Ohio
- Medlar with Wesham, a civil parish on the Fylde in Lancashire, England
People named Medlar
- Bessica Medlar Raiche, physician and aviator
- Linda Medlar
- Medlar (musician), British Deep House producer and DJ
In literature
- Common medlar, the fruit of Mespilus germanica, has been used as a metaphor
- for age, particularly premature age
- in British plays from the 16th and 17th centuries, references to the fruit are associated with a bawdy name for it: "open-arses"
- Giovanni Verga's novel of Sicilian peasant life is called "I Malavoglia: The House by the Medlar Tree"
See also
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- MEDLARS, a computerized biomedical bibliographic retrieval system
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