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Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits.

        gínjol

        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"
              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
              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.

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