greengage

English

Etymology

From green + gage.

Noun

greengage (plural greengages)

  1. A plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.
    • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
      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 green-gage plums and bananas.

Hypernyms

  • (Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana): gage

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