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CHINESE JUJUBE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees
Synonyms:
Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("Chinese jujube" 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 jujube" is a part of...):
Christ's-thorn; Jerusalem thorn; jujube; jujube bush; Ziziphus jujuba (spiny tree having dark red edible fruits)
