Also Longevil. [Prob. from the surname Longueville; for its existence in Scotland cf. Henry’s Wallace, x. 789.] The name of a kind of pear.
1683. J. Reid, Scots Gardener (1756), 101. No Pear holds well on it [the quince], that I have tried, excepting the Red Pear, Achan, and Longevil.
1817. P. Neill, Horticulture, in Edin. Encycl. (1830), XI. 211/2. The Longueville is very generally spread over the northern part of Britain, where aged trees of it exist in the neighbourhood of ancient monasteries.
