QUANDONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quandong mean? 

• QUANDONG (noun)
  The noun QUANDONG has 4 senses:

1. Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed

2. the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree

3. Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit

4. red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam

  Familiarity information: QUANDONG used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUANDONG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eucarya acuminata; Fusanus acuminatus; quandang; quandong; quandong tree

Hypernyms ("quandong" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "quandong"):

native peach; quandang; quandong; quantong (red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam)

quandong nut (edible nutlike seed of the quandong fruit)

Holonyms ("quandong" is a member of...):

Eucarya; Fusanus; genus Eucarya; genus Fusanus (quandong trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blue fig; quandong

Hypernyms ("quandong" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("quandong" is a part of...):

blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree (Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blue fig; Brisbane quandong; Elaeocarpus grandis; quandong; quandong tree; silver quandong tree

Hypernyms ("quandong" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (parts of "quandong"):

silver quandong (pale easily worked timber from the quandong tree)

blue fig; quandong (the fruit of the Brisbane quandong tree)

Holonyms ("quandong" is a member of...):

Elaeocarpus; genus Elaeocarpus (type genus of the family Elaeocarpaceae)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Red Australian fruit; used for dessert or in jam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

native peach; quandang; quandong; quantong

Hypernyms ("quandong" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("quandong" is a part of...):

Eucarya acuminata; Fusanus acuminatus; quandang; quandong; quandong tree (Australian tree with edible flesh and edible nutlike seed)