CHINESE JUJUBE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees

Synonyms:

Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Chinese jujube" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)

Holonyms ("Chinese jujube" is a part of...):

Christ's-thorn; Jerusalem thorn; jujube; jujube bush; Ziziphus jujuba (spiny tree having dark red edible fruits)