Chinese jujube

9.3

A dark red fruit like a plum with sweet flesh often eaten fresh or dried

noun
/ˈtʃaɪniːz ˈdʒuːdʒuːb/

: jujube

She bought a bag of dried Chinese jujube at the Asian grocery.

Examples

Farmers cultivate Chinese jujube trees for both their fruit and ornamental value.
The Chinese jujube is popular in traditional Chinese medicine for its nutritional value.
I bought some Chinese jujubes at the market.
The Chinese jujube is known for its sweet flavor.
Farmers cultivate Chinese jujube trees for both their fruit and ornamental value.
She bought a bag of dried Chinese jujube at the Asian grocery.
The Chinese jujube is popular in traditional Chinese medicine for its nutritional value.

Synonyms

Chinese date

vsChinese jujube

6.9

A small dark red fruit like a plum that is sweet, chewy, and often dried

is the cultivated fruit from Old World buckthorn trees

jujube

vsChinese jujube

9.9

A small dark red fruit like a plum that grows on an Asian tree

is focused on the commonly cultivated sweet flesh rather than the tree

Surface Forms

Chinese jujube singular

Chinese jujubes plural

Morphology

Chinese + jujube

The meaning is directly compositional: 'jujube' names the small dark-red fruit and 'Chinese' specifies its origin/variety, so together they denote the jujube from China. This simple adjective + noun structure is cross-linguistically common and immediately inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

Chinese jujube gets its name from Chinese, meaning from China, and jujube, which comes from an old word for the sweet, red fruit. So the name simply means 'a sweet fruit from China', which helps you remember it is a red, plumlike fruit people eat.