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Meanings of loquat tree in English

Portuguese
nespereira
Catalan
nesprer del japo
Spanish
eriobotrya japonica
Wikidata

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

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        Examples for "loquat"
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        My trees are four years old and are as follows: Peach, fig, loquat, apple, apricot and plum.
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
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        At last they reached a second cleared space, standing in a large garden of manilla, loquat, poncians, and hibiscus-trees.
        The Great Taboo
        3
        Of fruits also there was a great variety, among others the pine-apple, banana, plantain, pawpaw, granadilla, guava, orange, loquat, durian, and the cocoanut.
        The Missing Merchantman
        4
        New Zealand contributes her share, and to China and Japan they are indebted for the camphor tree, the gingko, the loquat, and the chestnuts.
        A Truthful Woman in Southern California
        5
        I have ordered some fig-trees and loquats, too, from Sydney.
        Adventure
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        So we all four sat together in the shade of the Japanese medlar-tree and talked about the changes in the town since my last visit.
        Castellinaria, and Other Sicilian Diversions
        1
        The American wild plum crosses readily with almost any other plum and particularly well with the Japanese plum.
        Growing Nuts in the North / A Personal Story of the Author's Exp...
        2
        Here and there one sees the guava, the Japanese persimmon, Japanese plum, or some similar exotic-butgrapes and oranges are the principal product.
        The California Birthday Book / Prose and Poetical Selections fro...
        3
        We studied fruit ripening in two Japanese plum cultivars, the climacteric Santa Rosa (SR) and its non-climacteric bud sport mutant, Sweet Miriam (SM).
        Pubmed
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        This is notably the case with many Japanese plums, which, if not thinned, are very inferior.
        Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) / A Practical Guide to the ...
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        But they're to stay there until some of those black-gum trees begin to glut the market with yellow clings and Japanese plums.
        The Gentle Grafter
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        The methanol extract and its fractions of Eriobotrya japonica leaves showed strong antioxidant activity.
        Pubmed
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