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    CHINESE DATE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn treesplay

    Synonyms:

    Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("Chinese date" is a kind of...):

    edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

    drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)

    Holonyms ("Chinese date" is a part of...):

    Christ's-thorn; Jerusalem thorn; jujube; jujube bush; Ziziphus jujuba (spiny tree having dark red edible fruits)

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