cotoneaster

See also: Cotoneaster

English

Cotoneaster frigidus

Etymology

From translingual Cotoneaster, from Latin cotōneum (“quince”) + -aster.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kə(ʊ)ˌtəʊniːˈastə/
• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

cotoneaster (plural cotoneasters)

1. Any of several erect or creeping shrubs, of the genus Cotoneaster, that have pinkish flowers and red berries.
   • 1900s, Thomas Hardy, Birds at Winter Nightfall:

     Around the house the flakes fly faster,

     And all the berries now are gone

     From holly and cotoneaster [..]

Translations

Cotoneaster

• Arabic: سَفَرْجَلِيَّة f (safarjaliyya), كُوتُونَسْتِر m (kūtūnastir)
• Armenian: չմենի (hy) (čʻmeni)
• Belarusian: кізі́льнік m (kizílʹnik)
• Czech: skalník m
• Danish: dværgmispel
• Dutch: dwergmispel (nl) f
• Finnish: tuhkapensas (fi)
• Georgian: ვაშლანა (vašlana)
• German: Zwergmispel f
• Hungarian: madárbirs (hu)
• Polish: irga (pl) f
• Portuguese: cotoneáster m
• Russian: кизи́льник (ru) m (kizílʹnik), ирга́ (ru) f (irgá)
• Serbo-Croatian: dunjàrica (sh) f
• Slovak: skalník m
• Spanish: cotoneaster m
• Turkish: dağ muşmulası
• Ukrainian: кизи́льник m (kyzýlʹnyk), кізі́льнік m (kizílʹnik), ірга́ f (irhá)
• Upper Sorbian: kisalnik m