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JUJUBE BUSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits
Synonyms:
Christ's-thorn; Jerusalem thorn; jujube; jujube bush; Ziziphus jujuba
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("jujube bush" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Meronyms (parts of "jujube bush"):
Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube (dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees)
Holonyms ("jujube bush" is a member of...):
genus Ziziphus; Ziziphus (spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes)