Meaning of greengage | Babel Free

Definitions

A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.

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Examples

“The apricot rarely produces any fruit, except in a few places, and then very scantily. The greengage plum is nearly equally unproductive.”

“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 bananas.”

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