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green-gage

green-gage is the alternative form of greengage.

Meaning of greengage

Noun

greengage (plural greengages)

  1. A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.
    • The apricot rarely produces any fruit, except in a few places, and then very scantily. The greengage plum is nearly equally unproductive.1834, John Forbes, “Sketch of the Medical Topography of the Hundred of Penwith”, in Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, volume 2, page 66
    Synonyms:
    greengage plum

Forms of green-gage

pluralgreen-gages

Questions about green-gage

What is green-gage the alternative form of?
Green-gage is the alternative form of greengage.

Words near green-gage in the dictionary

  1. green-finned
  2. green-flag
  3. green-flags
  4. green-flies
  5. green-fly
  6. green-gage
  7. green-gages
  8. green-gedge
  9. green-gill
  10. green-gilled
  11. green-gold

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