Jujube meaning

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Any of various other trees or shrubs of the genus Ziziphus bearing edible fruit.
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A fruit-flavored candy or lozenge.
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The edible, datelike fruit of any of several trees and shrubs (genus Zizyphus) of the buckthorn family, growing in warm climates.
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A tree or shrub bearing this fruit.
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A jellylike, fruit-flavored lozenge or a gumdrop.
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The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees.
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A fruit-bearing tree, Ziziphus zizyphus.
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The fruit of this tree, also known as Chinese date and fructus jujubae.
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(North America) A type of candy; specific type varies by country.
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Origin of jujube

  • Middle English jujube fruit from Old French from Medieval Latin jujuba from Latin zizyphum from Greek zizuphon

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French jujube, ultimately from Ancient Greek ζίζυφον (zizuphon), ultimately from Persian زایزافون.

    From Wiktionary

Jujube Sentence Examples

  • Jujube fruits when carefully dried will keep for a long time, and retain their refreshing acid flavour, on account of which they are much valued in the countries of the Mediterranean region as a winter dessert fruit; and, 1 The med.

  • As seen in commerce jujube fruits are about the size of a small filbert, having a reddish-brown, shining, somewhat wrinkled exterior, and a yellow or gingerbread coloured pulp enclosing a hard elongated stone.

  • Bona (Arabic annaba, " the city of jujube trees"), which has passed through many vicissitudes, was built by the Arabs, and was for centuries a possession of the rulers of Tunis, who built the Kasbah in 1300.

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