loquat
Americannoun
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a small evergreen tree, Eriobotrya japonica, native to China and Japan, cultivated as an ornamental and for its yellow, plumlike fruit.
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the fruit itself.
noun
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an ornamental evergreen rosaceous tree, Eriobotrya japonica, of China and Japan, having reddish woolly branches, white flowers, and small yellow edible plumlike fruits
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the fruit of this tree
Etymology
Origin of loquat
1810–20; < dialectal Chinese (Guangdong) lōkwat, akin to Chinese lújú
Vocabulary lists containing loquat
Example Sentences
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In the rear open kitchen, Manon Fleury turned humble winter produce into memorable dishes: Fried sweet-potato threads mimicked a mini funnel cake, dabbed with loquat jam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Though Rincon doesn’t care for the loquat tree that grows in a corner of the property, she keeps watering it because her neighbors love the fruit.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2023
He visits rare fruit growers at their homes, and has a rare-fruit garden of his own with mango, banana, loquat, peach and citron trees.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
The loquat is the platypus of the fruit world; it seems to combine familiar species into something completely new.
From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2021
We woke up one morning to find a hole in the ground where our loquat tree had stood.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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