OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36126

greengage

/ˈɡɹiːnɡeɪd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
claudia
A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.
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 greengage plums and banana…
The apricot rarely produces any fruit, except in a few places, and then very scantily. The greengage plum is nearly equally unproductive.
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