Medlar (disambiguation)

Medlar (Mespilus germanica) is a large shrub or small tree cultivated for its edible fruits.

Medlar or medlars may also refer to:

Plants

• Mespilus or medlars, a genus of plants
• Mespilus canescens, Stern's medlar, a close relative of the cultivated medlar, in family Rosaceae
• Crataegus azarolus, azarole or Mediterranean medlar, in family Rosaceae
• Eriobotrya, a genus formerly included in Mespilus
• Eriobotrya japonica, the Japanese medlar or loquat, formerly called Mespilus japonica
• Mimusops elengi, medlar or bullet wood, a tree native to Asia and Australia, in family Sapotaceae
• Vangueria infausta, the African medlar, in family Rubiaceae
• Wolfberry (Lycium species), also called red medlar, in family Solanaceae

Places

• Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, a baseball stadium in University Park, Pennsylvania
• Medlar-with-Wesham, a civil parish on the Fylde in Lancashire, England

People

• Medlar (musician) (born 1986), British Deep house producer and DJ
• Bessica Medlar Raiche (1875–1932), American physician and aviator
• Linda Medlar (born 1949), subject of an Independent Counsel investigation during the first term of U.S. President Bill Clinton
• Martin Medlar (1899–1965), Irish Fianna Fáil politician

Other uses

• MEDLARS, a computerized biomedical bibliographic retrieval system
• I Malavoglia or The House by the Medlar Tree, 1881 novel by Giovanni Verga

See also

• False medlar (Sorbus chamaemespilus), a deciduous shrub
• Medlar bodies, a skin condition
• Medlar Conservation Area, an area in Five Rivers MetroParks in Montgomery County, Ohio