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Chinese jujube

noun

dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees

• Syn: ↑jujube, ↑Chinese date

• Hypernyms: ↑edible fruit, ↑drupe, ↑stone fruit

• Part Holonyms: ↑jujube, ↑jujube bush, ↑Christ's-thorn, ↑Jerusalem thorn, ↑Ziziphus jujuba

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized C

: any of several large-fruited jujubes developed in China from the common jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) and cultivated in warm regions (as California)

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See Chinese date.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.