JUJUBE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

gumdrop (a jellied candy coated with sugar crystals)

Meaning:

Dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees

Synonyms:

Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("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 ("jujube" is a part of...):

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

Meaning:

Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits

Synonyms:

Christ's-thorn; Jerusalem thorn; jujube; jujube bush; Ziziphus jujuba

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "jujube"):

Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube (dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees)

Holonyms ("jujube" is a member of...):

genus Ziziphus; Ziziphus (spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes)