Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small evergreen tree (Eriobotrya japonica) in the rose family, native to China and Japan, having fragrant white flowers and pear-shaped yellow fruit with large seeds.
- noun The edible fruit of this plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An evergreen shrub or tree, Photinia (Eryobotrya) Japonica, native in China and Japan, and commonly introduced in warm temperate climates.
- noun The fruit of this tree. Also called biwa, lukwati, pipa, and Japanese medlar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The fruit of the Japanese medlar (
Photinia Japonica ). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The Eriobotrya japonica tree.
- noun The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
- noun evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Níspero or loquat is a small oval yellow fruit with a slightly acidic pulp, ranging in color from white to yellow-orange.
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Japonica, _ in Madeira called the loquat and elsewhere the Japanese medlar: it grows wild in the Brazil, where the people distil from it.
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Sokenbicha in Japan is a slightly bitter-tasting brew, a mix of 15 ingredients such as loquat leaves and azuki beans.
Coke Tests Health-Tea Waters Chester Dawson 2011
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To be sure, one of the native fruits seems a sort of joke when you hear it first named, and when you are offered a 'loquat', if you are of a frivolous mind you search your mind for the connection with 'loquor' which it seems to intimate.
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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To be sure, one of the native fruits seems a sort of joke when you hear it first named, and when you are offered a 'loquat', if you are of a frivolous mind you search your mind for the connection with 'loquor' which it seems to intimate.
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878
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They also have a sweet tooth, feeding on fallen fruit such as loquat and jelly palm.
Battery Shots By Tony Bertauski 2010
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If going, grab a meal at Çiya Sofrasi, a restaurant that offers delicious and unusual Turkish foods such as loquat kebab (90-216-3303-190; www. ciya.com.tr
Top Acts Rock Istanbul's Summer Michael Kuser 2009
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In Acatlán and nearby villages, herb and fruit liquors are made with the cane alcohol called aguardiente, with nanche (loquat) being one of the most popular.
Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009
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In Acatlán and nearby villages, herb and fruit liquors are made with the cane alcohol called aguardiente, with nanche (loquat) being one of the most popular.
Culinary travel in the Mixteca Poblana: The avocado route 2009
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The loquat and the kumquat were missing, ten - and fifteen-foot trees, simply gone, sucked into the sky, just muddy craters where the roots had been.
reesetee commented on the word loquat
A small evergreen tree native to China and Japan, cultivated as an ornamental and for its yellow, plumlike fruit; or the fruit itself. Also called Japanese plum.
August 22, 2007
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