rose-apple, a plump rosy cheek
rose-apple: metaph. of a plump rosy cheek, Theoc. 23.8 (ῥοδομάλλον codd., ῥόδα μάλων Ahrens).
II a confection of roses and quinces
a confection of roses and quinces, Alex.Trall. 1.10.
The corpus record
ῥοδό-μηλον
rodomelon · τό
rose-apple
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.