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Dark red plum-like fruit of Old World buckthorn trees
Answer for the clue "Dark red plum-like fruit of Old World buckthorn trees ", 6 letters:
jujube
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jujube ( or ), or jube , is the name of several types of candy , varying in description on a regional basis. The candies can vary in texture from being hard and resinous to something similar to firm loukoum or gummy candies . In the United States , Jujubes ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. spiny tree having dark red edible fruits [syn: jujube bush , Christ's-thorn , Jerusalem thorn , Ziziphus jujuba ] dark red plum-like fruit of Old World buckthorn trees [syn: Chinese date , Chinese jujube ] chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "date-like fruit from a tree found in Asia," from Medieval Latin jujuba (plural), from Late Latin zizyphum , from zizyphus , an Asiatic tree with datelike fruit, from Greek zizyphon , from Persian zayzafun . The meaning "soft candy with date-like ...
Usage examples of jujube.
Ming Ho seemed to be chugging right along, bless her little jujube heart.
She sat down on the velvet seat by the window, and the lad squatted down on a footstool, while his eldest sister hovered round the jujube box near her papa.
With a roar of counterfeit rage Dolong released the half-choked Zheng and kicked out at Trinket, deliberately missing him and demolishing a small jujube tree that was growing out of a crack in the wall.
The Admiral had to apply every trick he could to keep the jujubes from getting their hands on you.
The jujubes delivered sixteen rail cars of supplies last night and they have to be transferred to the warehouse.
Listen, we just got word that the jujubes are going to try something so we have to get you away from there.
His gifts were all products from his establishment, to wit: six boxes of jujubes, a whole jar of racahout, three cakes of marshmallow paste, and six sticks of sugar-candy into the bargain that he had come across in a cupboard.
Consequently when he left the carriage at Rinks, he had two of their jujubes sticking in his damp fleece.
It was one of those soft, transparent Korean units, the kind that looked like a flat bag of clear white jelly with a bunch of colored jujubes inside.
Certainly he was supposed to remove himself to the wholesalers to stock up on Pontefract cakes and liquorice sticks and jujubes and sherbet lemons.
Sir William Roberts, of Manchester, has advised jujubes, made of gum arabic and pyrethrum, to be slowly masticated by persons who suffer from acid fermentation in the stomach, a copious flow of alkaline saliva being stimulated thereby in the mouth, which is repeatedly swallowed during the sucking of one or more of the jujubes, and which serves to neutralise the acid generated within the stomach.
The house window itself held tier on tier of bottle of sweets receding away from the gaze of the beholder to dim regions beyond, while, balancing on the front of every shelf, were boxes of hearts- and-crosses, sherbet dips, everlasting stripes, scented cachous and jujubes.
His gifts were all products from his establishment, to wit: six boxes of jujubes, a whole jar of racahout, three cakes of marshmallow paste, and six sticks of sugar-candy into the bargain that he had come across in a cupboard.
The house window itself held tier on tier of bottle of sweets receding away from the gaze of the beholder to dim regions beyond, while, balancing on the front of every shelf, were boxes of hearts and-crosses, sherbet dips, everlasting stripes, scented cachous and jujubes.
Next door was the candy and stationery shop owned by two daffy old maids who were religious: here there was the almost sickeningly sweet smell of taffy, of Spanish peanuts, of jujubes and Sen-Sen and of Sweet Caporal cigarettes.