/ English Dictionary

LOQUAT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies

Synonyms:

Japanese plum; loquat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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

Holonyms ("loquat" is a part of...):

Eriobotrya japonica; Japanese medlar; Japanese plum; loquat; loquat tree (evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan

Synonyms:

Eriobotrya japonica; Japanese medlar; Japanese plum; loquat; loquat tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "loquat"):

Japanese plum; loquat (yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies)

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

Eriobotrya; genus Eriobotrya (Asiatic evergreen fruit trees)

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