Usage of "Jerusalem thorn"

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Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits.

Large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States.

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Examples for "jujube"

But I thought the jujube was a fruit, like an apple. 
 Three Acres and Liberty 

And he threw one jujube after another into his open mouth. 
 L'Assommoir 

An apothecary ought to have known how to suck a jujube! 
 Venus In Copper 

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... 

The jujube itself has been used for years to flavor candies and other confections. 
 Three Acres and Liberty 

A hedge-shrub of any kind whatever-hawthorn ,pomegranate ,Christ'sthorn-providesher with a foundation, usually as high as a man's head. 
 The Mason-Bees 

East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu.

Translations for Jerusalem thorn

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Significados de Jerusalem thorn en inglés