Defn: a quince tree or shrub. Japan quince (Bot.), an Eastern Asiatic shrub (Cydonia, formerly Pyrus, Japonica) and its very fragrant but inedible fruit. The shrub has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament. — Quince curculio (Zoöl.), a small gray and yellow curculio (Conotrachelus cratægi) whose larva lives in quinces. — Quince tree (Bot.), the small tree (Cydonia vulgaris) which produces the quince.
QUINCEWORT
Quince"wort`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.
QUINCH Quinch, v. i. Etym: [Cf. OD. quincken to quiver, shake, Fries. quink hovering. Cf. Quich.]
Defn: To stir; to wince. [Obs.] Spenser.
QUINCUNCIAL
Quin*cun"cial, Etym: [L. quincuncialis, from quincunx. See Quincunx.]
1. Having the form of a quincunx.
2. (Bot.)
Defn: Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial æstivation. Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next.
QUINCUNCIALLY
Quin*cun"cial*ly, adv.