CHINESE DATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chinese date mean? 

• CHINESE DATE (noun)
  The noun CHINESE DATE has 1 sense:

1. dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees

  Familiarity information: CHINESE DATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHINESE DATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Chinese date; Chinese jujube; jujube

Hypernyms ("Chinese date" is a kind of...):

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

drupe; stone fruit (fleshy indehiscent fruit with a single seed: e.g. almond; peach; plum; cherry; elderberry; olive; jujube)

Holonyms ("Chinese date" is a part of...):

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