
Noah Webster
Melocotone
MELOCOTO'NE, noun [Latin malum cotoneum, quince-apple. Cotomeum is probably our cotton, and the fruit so named from its pubescence.]
A quince. But the name is sometimes given to a large kind of peach.

MELOCOTO'NE, noun [Latin malum cotoneum, quince-apple. Cotomeum is probably our cotton, and the fruit so named from its pubescence.]
A quince. But the name is sometimes given to a large kind of peach.