Mĕl/o-co-toon' or Mĕl/o-co-toon, n.

(-tōōn') (Synop., § 130), n. [Sp. melocoton, a peach-tree grafted into a quince-tree, or the fruit of that tree; It. melocotogno, quince-tree; N. Lat. malum cotonitum, Lat. malum cotonium, or cotoneum, or Cydonium, a quince or quince-apple, from Cydonia, a town in Crete, whence it came.] A quince; also, a large kind of peach. [Written also malacatune, and melicotoon.]