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cumquat

cumquat

1 7.7
A small round orange fruit with sweet skin and sour inside or the small tree that grows it
  • noun
  • /ˈkʌmkwɑt/
  • UK
translation icon : kumquat
  • He spread cumquat marmalade on his toast for a sweet and tangy breakfast.

Examples

  • Valuable goods contributed, two milk cows, live... eighty lugs ot tresh fruit... forty-five young cumquat trees... one ton of fertilizer...

  • 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.

  • The garden was filled with tiny orange cumquats ready for picking.

Synonyms

citrus
vscumquat
16 2.1

A fruit like an orange or lemon with thick rind and juicy flesh

is narrower and means a tiny orange fruit with edible sweet skin
kumquat
vscumquat
10 7.1

A small orange fruit with sweet skin and sour flesh you eat whole

is the same fruit but spelled differently
citrus fruit
vscumquat
3 1.3

A juicy fruit with thick skin like an orange or lemon

is a much smaller orange fruit with sweet rind and sour pulp
round kumquat
vscumquat
7.1

A small tree from East Asia that makes round orange fruits with sweet peel and sour flesh

is the general small orange fruit not limited to round form
oval kumquat
vscumquat
7.6

A small evergreen bush that grows oval orange fruits you can eat

is the general small orange fruit not limited to oval form

How Big

grapefruit
57 1.0
orange
126 1.0
lemon
318 1.0
lime
107 1.0
cumquat
  • UK
1 7.7
berry
41 1.0

Surface Forms

cumquat singular
cumquats plural
kumquats plural
kumquat singular

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.