greengage
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Noun — A plum cultivar with greenish-yellow flesh and skin, Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.
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Etymology
By surface analysis, green + gage. See alternative etymology below, as this is incorrect: the etymology for gage is a back-formation from greengage. alternative etymology The legend goes that Sir William Gage, 2nd Baronet of Hengrave, (c. 1656–1727), had a shipment of plums from France, in which the labels of the reine...
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