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, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum, Eriobotrya japonica]
Usage examples of "loquat tree".
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.
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.