jujube

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Mention that to the average person and he will answer But I thought the jujube was a fruit, like an apple.

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  1. noun Any of several Old World trees of the genus Ziziphus, especially Z. jujuba, having palmately veined leaves, spiny stipules, small yellowish flowers, and dark red fruit.
  2. noun The fleshy, edible drupe of this tree. Also called Chinese date.
  3. noun A fruit-flavored, usually chewy candy or lozenge.

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  • We were advancing in artillery formation over undulating and broken country, sparsely set with jujube-bushes (zizyphus). —  The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad
  • Her lot whom heaven has bidden To live alone, of love and lover reft And again On jujube-trees the blushing dewdrops falter The peacock wakes and leaves the cottage thatch A deer is rising near the hoof-marked altar And stretching, stands, the day's new life to catch And yet again The moon that topped the loftiest mountain ranges That slew the darkness in the midmost sky Is fallen from heaven, and all her glory changes So high to rise, so low at last to lie Anusuya (_entering hurriedly. —  Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
  • And hard by the gigantic jujube, the mighty son of Kunti saw the Bhagirathi of easy descent and cool and furnished with fresh lotuses and having stairs made of rubies and corals and graced with trees and scattered over with celestial flowers, and gladsome to the mind. —  The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
  • His face was the colour of the fruit of the jujube-tree, and his lips carmine. —  Myths and Legends of China
  • His face was the colour of ripe fruit of the jujube-tree, his hair and beard red, the former done up in the shape of a fish-tail, and he had three eyes. —  Myths and Legends of China
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  1. Middle English, jujube fruit, from Old French, from Medieval Latin jujuba, from Latin zizyphum, from Greek zizuphon.

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  1. from French jujube (the fruit) (ML.reflex jujuba) (cf. Italian dim, giuggiola, the fruit, giuggiolo, the tree), from Latin zizyphum, the fruit, zizyphus, the tree, from Greek ζίζυφον, jujube (the fruit), ζίζυφος, jujube-tree, from Arabic zizuf, Persian zayzafun, zizafun, zizfun, the jujube-tree. Cf. Portuguese açofufa, jujube, from the Arabic, with the Arabic article al.
 

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