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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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 rode to another street, entered a druggist's, and the same thing on a smaller scale was repeated, except that here Marina did no tasting, but for a stray gelatine or jujube.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson
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
Residents made a comfortable living selling rice, jujubes, oranges and melons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2013
The auspicious damsel, bearing those words of the great Rishi in her mind, began to cook those jujubes although the latter, O king, showed no signs of softening.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
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