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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A very small orange of about the size of a pigeon's egg, the fruit of the Citrus Aurantium, var. Japonica, very abundant in China and Japan, with a sweet rind and sharp acid pulp. It is used chiefly in preserves. Also spelled cumquot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) See kumquat.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative spelling of kumquat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp

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