ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ziziphus jujuba mean? 

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

1. spiny tree having dark red edible fruits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spiny tree having dark red edible fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Christ's-thorn; Jerusalem thorn; jujube; jujube bush; Ziziphus jujuba

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "Ziziphus jujuba"):

Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube (dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees)

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

genus Ziziphus; Ziziphus (spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes)

 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)