noun

• Mespilus germanica, common medlar (now often Crataegus germanica)
• Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.
• Any of several similar trees that bear similar fruit
• Stern's medlar (Crataegus × canescens: family Rosaceae)
• Mediterranean medlar or azarole (Crataegus azarolus: family Rosaceae)
• Japanese medlar or loquat (Eriobotrya japonica: family Rosaceae)
• Spanish medlar or bulletwood (Mimusops elengi: family Sapotaceae)
• African medlar (Vangueria infausta: family Rubiaceae)
• Wolfberry, goji, red medlar (Lycium spp.),
• The fruit of such trees, similar to small apples
• especially that of Crataegus sect. Mespilus, not eaten until it has begun to decay, or more specifically, to blet.
• (derogatory, intended sexually) A woman or a woman's genitalia (as the fruit's appearance mimics an "open-arse")