Greengage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈɡɹiːnɡeɪd͡ʒ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Greengage is a noun meaning A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.
Meaning
A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- greengages
- green-gage
- green gage
- green-gedge
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include plum, jam, plums, gage, groundcherry, greening.
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