kumquat

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The second inner "paste" layer can be made of each variety - kumquat, red bean, mountain yam

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  1. noun Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella, having small, edible, orangelike fruit.
  2. noun The fruit of these plants, having an acid pulp and a thin, edible rind. It is the smallest of the citrus fruits.

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  • The struggling kumquat tree produced 5 kumquats this year with absolutely no TLC or fertilizer. —  Pure Florida
  • The second inner "paste" layer can be made of each variety - kumquat, red bean, mountain yam —  teczcape- an escape to Food
  • When it came time to choose favorites, every variety got at least one vote, but the kumquat was the winner with seven votes. —  PE Angels Baseball
  • My condo complex have four kumquat trees full of ripe kumquats right now, they are sweet as can be, really good, one of them right next to where I often practice yoga, down on the river, great fun, eat and practice. —  Ask MetaFilter
  • The kumquat trees are full to overflowing just now, I bet that using my ladder I could / can get five ten gallon buckets of fresh fruit off these trees, easy. —  Ask MetaFilter
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  1. Chinese (Cantonese) kamkwat, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) xīn, gold + Chinese (Mandarin) jú, orange, tangerine.
 

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