[mod. Bot. L. f. cotonea, cotonia quince + -ASTER.]
A genus of small trees or trailing shrubs, N.O. Rosaceæ, inhabiting northern Europe and the Himalaya mountains, one species being a rare native of England. Some of them are cultivated as ornamental shrubs.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Cotonaster, in botany, a name given by several authors to a species of the cratægus.
1796. C. Marshall, Garden., xix. (1813), 324. Cotoneaster, (a medlar) dwarf quince.
1882. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, IX. 567. Cotoneaster on a wall partly shaded by trees.
Mod. The wall of the porter’s lodge is covered with evergreen cotoneaster.
