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kumquats

Fortunella \Fortunella\ prop. n. small genus of shrubs called kumquats, native to South China, producing small ovoid orangelike fruits called kumquats.

Syn: genus Fortunella.

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kumquats

n. (plural of kumquat English)

Usage examples of "kumquats".

These kumquats were of a variety developed in modern times and Torve was eating only the sweet golden rinds and setting the little fruits aside.

Dumbstruck, the party saw squads of squash, platoons of potatoes, companies of kumquats, battalions of beets, and regiments of radishes, all tramping to a martial air played by a fifty-piece rutabaga marching band.

Ballistas of kamikaze kumquats rained death down upon the barricades, and deafening reports of aerial popcorns toppled parapets on the heads of Serutan's henchmen.