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Jujube

The sweet and edible drupes (fruits) of several Mediterranean and African species of small trees, of the genus Zizyphus, especially the Z. jujuba, Z. vulgaris, Z. mucronata, and Z. Lotus. The last named is thought to have furnished the lotus of the ancient Libyan Lotophagi, or lotus eaters.

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A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the…

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A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

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Christ's-thorn 70% connected

One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bear…

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Christ's-thorn 92% connected

One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bear…

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Analogue noun · 78% connection

A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such speci…

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Beech noun · 78% connection

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Beech tree noun · 78% connection

any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclose…

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Bittersweet adjective · 78% connection

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

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Citrus noun · 78% connection

any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for…

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Coffee noun · 78% connection

The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabi…

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Cornel noun · 78% connection

The cornelian cherry (Cornus Mas), a European shrub with clusters of small, greenish flowers, followed by very acid but edible drupes…

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Cucumber noun · 78% connection

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Drupaceous adjective · 78% connection

Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits.

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Hackberry noun · 78% connection

A genus of trees (Celtis) related to the elm, but bearing drupes with scanty, but often edible, pulp. C. occidentalis is common in the…

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Halesia noun · 78% connection

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