JUJUBE
\d͡ʒˈuːd͡ʒuːb], \dʒˈuːdʒuːb], \dʒ_ˈuː_dʒ_uː_b]\
Definitions of JUJUBE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A genus of spiny shrubs or small trees, the fruit of which is dried as a sweetmeat: a lozenge made of sugar and gum.
By Daniel Lyons
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A word of Arabic origin. The fruit of Rhamnus Ziz'yphus seu Ziz'yphus vulga'ris. Ord. Rhamneae. A native of the south of Europe. It was formerly ranked amongst the pectoral fruits. It has an agreeable sweet taste. The fruits of two other species of Zizyphus- Z. jujuba, a native of the East Indies, and Z. lotus, growing in North Africa, possess properties similar to those of Zizyphus vulgaris.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The fruit of several species of Zizyphus, especially Zizyphus vulgaris. J's have been used in the form of decoction in pectoral complaints, and a paste-j. paste-made with gum arabic and sugar dissolved in a decoction of the fruit, is used as a demulcent. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [French, Latin] The fruit of a plant, a native of Syria – it is of a blood–red or saffron colour, and has a sweet, granular pulp, formerly decocted and used as an expectorant ; - a lozenge made from or flavoured with this fruit ; - any kind of mucilaginous fruity lozenge.
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