greengage
English
Noun
greengage (plural greengages)
- 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.
- 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
Hypernyms
- (Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana): gage
Derived terms
Translations
a plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin
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