ZIZIPHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ziziphus mean? 

• ZIZIPHUS (noun)
  The noun ZIZIPHUS has 1 sense:

1. spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes

  Familiarity information: ZIZIPHUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZIZIPHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ziziphus; Ziziphus

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

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Ziziphus"):

Christ's-thorn; Jerusalem thorn; jujube; jujube bush; Ziziphus jujuba (spiny tree having dark red edible fruits)

lotus tree; Ziziphus lotus (shrubby deciduous tree of the Mediterranean region)

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

buckthorn family; family Rhamnaceae; Rhamnaceae (trees and shrubs usually thorny bearing drupaceous fruit many having medicinal value)

 Context examples 

An oral traditional Chinese herbal formulation in powder form containing a spray dried aqueous extract from the herbs Scutellaria baicalensis, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Ziziphus jujuba and Paeonia lactiflora with potential immunomodulating and chemoprotective activities.

(Chinese Herbal Formulation PHY906, NCI Thesaurus)