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Jujube

noun

Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits. Synonyms: Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, jujube bush, Ziziphus jujuba.

Dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees. Synonyms: Chinese date, Chinese jujube.

Chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat).

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"Jujube" Quotes from Famous Books

... members of NNGA have manifested an interest in the honey locust and the Chinese jujube. Both of these trees grow well in this region with a minimum of care. The Oriental persimmon, like the nut trees, requires more than casual attention and ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various

... as if they had stepped off of wedding cakes and bonbons, went about in their gay sugar clothes, laughing and talking in the sweetest voices. Bits of babies rocked in open-work cradles, and sugar boys and girls played with sugar toys in the most natural way. Carriages rolled along the jujube streets, drawn by the red and yellow barley horses we all love so well; cows fed in the green fields, and sugar birds ...

— The Louisa Alcott Reader - A Supplementary Reader for the Fourth Year of School • Louisa M. Alcott

... bamboos are now seen on the hills; but the jujube or zisyphus, which has evidently been introduced from India, extends no further up the river. We had been eating this fruit, which, having somewhat the taste of apples, the Portuguese call Macaas, all the way from Tette; and here they were larger than usual, though ...

— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone

Words linked to "Jujube" : stone fruit, Chinese jujube, drupe, Ziziphus, edible fruit, shrub, genus Ziziphus, bush, Christ's-thorn, gumdrop