Greengage

Origin

green + gage

Full definition of greengage

Noun

1. A plum with greenish-yellow flesh and skin .
• 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers,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.

Hypernyms

• (Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana) gage

Derived terms

• greengagey