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Meanings of jujube tree in English

Species of tree of the genus Ziziphus whose edible fruits have the consistency and taste of an apple and look like a small date.

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        Examples for "jujube"
        Examples for "jujube"
        1
        But I thought the jujube was a fruit, like an apple.
        Three Acres and Liberty
        2
        And he threw one jujube after another into his open mouth.
        L'Assommoir
        3
        An apothecary ought to have known how to suck a jujube!
        Venus In Copper
        4
        The dolichos grows, covering the jujube trees; The convolvulus spreads all over the tombs.
        The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry / From the Sacred Books of the...
        5
        The jujube itself has been used for years to flavor candies and other confections.
        Three Acres and Liberty
        1
        The exact date has been disputed, but most accounts accept the Chinese date of July 4.
        Wired
        2
        This pudding makes a great evening snack, as Chinese dates are rumored to help cure insomnia.
        The everything chinese cookbook: from wonton soup to sweet and s...
        3
        Chinese media reported in January that Bieber was set to return this year, but no Chinese dates have been announced.
        Reuters
        4
        Out of Chinese dates?
        The everything chinese cookbook: from wonton soup to sweet and s...
        5
        The style of the letters is in keeping with this date, but is quite incompatible with that derivable from the Chinese date of the era.
        Five Years of Theosophy
        1
        Plum sauce (sweet and sour) Jujubes (small red dates) Hoisin sauce
        Cooking for geeks: real science, great hacks, and good food
        2
        4 to 6 dried red dates
        Somewhere inside
        Usage of jujube tree in English
        1
        In size, the character of its trunk and its leaves, it closely resembles the jujube tree.
        De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) / The Eight Decades of Peter Marty...
        2
        The dolichos grows, covering the jujube trees; The convolvulus spreads all over the tombs.
        The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry / From the Sacred Books of the...
        3
        Then there came a jungle of nettle-trees, medlars and jujube trees, which pomegranates skirted with never-fading verdure.
        Abbe Mouret's Transgression