Associations to the word «Ziziphus»

Wiktionary

ZIZIPHUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Rhamnaceae   — various species in the buckthorn family, including the jujube.
ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA, proper noun. A taxonomic species within the family Rhamnaceae   — the jujube.
ZIZIPHUS ZIZYPHUS, proper noun. (archaic) A taxonomic species within the family Rhamnaceae   — the jujube, now Ziziphus jujuba.

Dictionary definition

ZIZIPHUS, noun. Spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes.

Wise words

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Nathaniel Hawthorne