cumquat
- noun
- /ˈkʌmkwɑt/
- UK
- He spread cumquat marmalade on his toast for a sweet and tangy breakfast.
Examples
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Valuable goods contributed, two milk cows, live... eighty lugs ot tresh fruit... forty-five young cumquat trees... one ton of fertilizer...
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Does the interest from your savings accounts go directly to fair trade cumquat farmers?
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That's like comparing cumquats to pumpkins.
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She enjoyed a refreshing salad made with sliced cumquat and mixed greens.
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The garden was filled with tiny orange cumquats ready for picking.
Synonyms
A fruit like an orange or lemon with thick rind and juicy flesh
A small orange fruit with sweet skin and sour flesh you eat whole
A juicy fruit with thick skin like an orange or lemon
A small tree from East Asia that makes round orange fruits with sweet peel and sour flesh
A small evergreen bush that grows oval orange fruits you can eat
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Etymology
Cumquat comes from Cantonese words kam ('gold') and kwat ('orange'), so it literally means 'golden orange'. So the name fits this small, bright orange fruit and helps you remember what it looks like.