jujube
Americannoun
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jujubes
plural
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a small candy or lozenge of gum arabic, gelatin, or the like and fruit flavoring.
noun
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any of several Old World spiny rhamnaceous trees of the genus Ziziphus, esp Z. jujuba, that have small yellowish flowers and dark red edible fruits See also Christ's-thorn
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the fruit of any of these trees
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a chewy sweet made of flavoured gelatine and sometimes medicated to soothe sore throats
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Etymology
Origin of jujube
1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin jujuba < Latin zīziphum < Greek zízyphon jujube tree
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Food was one of the few things that poor migrant workers brought with them to the railroads, introducing the region to ginseng and jujube.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
This year he's proud of his crop of jujube or Chinese dates, persimmons, and yuzu, a type of citrus.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2022
As he sat under a jujube tree in 2019, peering into Davinder’s smartphone, he didn’t even know if it would really be Sadiq, he recalled.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2022
Raised in a cave dwelling in central China’s Shaanxi province, he wasn’t expected to venture far beyond his village’s orchard of jujube trees.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2017
They are always letting out at each other, while thirty miles inland they don't care a jujube about the matter, and even play golf together and smoke pipes on the sly after sermon.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Fortified with ginseng and jujubes, this Korean chicken soup is a garlic lover’s dream.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
She first learned how to make it during formal patisserie training in France and has adapted it by adding dried red jujubes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2019
Seattle chef Rachel Yang serves hers with a spicy peanut brittle; mŏkbar’s Esther Choi has a special-ordered whole fried chicken that is served stuffed with jujubes and rice.
From Slate ● May 24, 2018
Think: quail stuffed with sticky rice, jujubes, Chinese sausage and seasonal fruit, and salt-baked whole cod wrapped in lotus leaves and served with its roe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2016
Having tasted there for three nights, one should eat jujubes.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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