Crossword clues for loquat
loquat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loquat \Lo"quat\, n. [Chinese name.] (Bot.) The fruit of the Japanese medlar ( Photinia Japonica). It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds. Also, the tree itself.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1820, from Cantonese luh kwat, literally "rush orange."
Wiktionary
n. 1 The (taxlink Eriobotrya japonica species noshow=1) tree. 2 The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.
WordNet
n. evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan [syn: loquat tree, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum, Eriobotrya japonica]
yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies [syn: Japanese plum]
Wikipedia
The loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, an ancient fruit grown in Japan for the past 1,000 years which is probably native to the cooler hill regions of China to south-central China.
It is a large evergreen shrub or tree, grown commercially for its yellow fruit, and also cultivated as an ornamental plant.
Eriobotrya japonica was formerly thought to be closely related to the genus Mespilus, and is still sometimes known as the Japanese medlar. It is also known as Japanese plum and Chinese plum, also known as pipa in China.
Loquat is an electronic/pop band based in San Francisco, California. The group is currently composed of Kylee Swenson Gordon (vocals/guitar), Christopher Cooper (keyboards), Anthony Gordon (bass guitar), Chip Cosby (guitar/vocals), and Jon Langmead (drums).
Usage examples of "loquat".
Here they built themselves handsome freestone houses, with noble verandahs and balconies and Moorish-looking high-walled gardens, within which grew the banana and the orange, the loquat and the guava, in tropical luxuriance and profusion.
New Zealand contributes her share, and to China and Japan they are indebted for the camphor tree, the gingko, the loquat, and the chestnuts.
Sally and I flopped down side by side with our backs to the sturdy trunk of one of the mhoba-hoba trees, the wild loquat tree that legend states the ancients brought with them from their homeland, and we looked at each other in despair.
Long moments passed in silence with just the lentitudinous dripping from the last of the rain leaving the lush loquat trees that surrounded the house.
Sitting in the cool green shade of the loquat tree, he told them of the mud and the fear and the horror of France.
Her eyes filled with tears, and everything around her-the hedge, the dilapidated doghouse with its rusty chain snaking out to touch the twisted roots of the old loquat tree, the hammock slung from its stout branches-was suddenly haloed in brightness, as if she were looking through a prism.
She selected one of the ripe loquats from the silver dish that stood beside the bed, and bit it in half with her small white teeth.
I've brought some roast chicken along, and also some wine and loquats, to try to help you forget my body-block at the airport the other morning.