loquat
pronunciation
How to pronounce loquat in British English:
UK [ˈləʊkwɒt]
How to pronounce loquat in American English:
US [ˈloʊkwɑt]
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- Noun:
- evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
- yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
Word Origin
- loquat (n.)
- 1820, from Cantonese luh kwat, literally "rush orange."
Example
- 1. Loquat is a small yellow fruit from southern china .
- 2. Loquat fruit breeding target properties represent at hybridism offspring .
- 3. All that remains of abu mohammed 's ancestral home here in syria 's capital are two small adobe brick rooms and a few fig , loquat and mulberry trees .
- 4. This fruit can only eat in the summer , we why not seize this season , indulge yourself in the loquat world .
- 5. Relationship between phenols compounds metabolism and pulp lignification of post harvest loquat .