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🍑 A yellow fruit 🌳 A fruit tree
loquat

loquat

1 9.6
A small yellow fruit with a large stone and little flesh often used for jam
  • noun
  • /ˈloʊkwɑt/
translation icon : níspero
  • The tree in my backyard produces sweet loquats every summer.
  • loquat shortcake
  • loquat recipes
  • guava and loquat

Examples

  • Let's see how it tastes sweetened with loquats themselves.

  • He smelled the sweet scent of loquats, thinking that he was thinner this year, wondering where he would find breakfast.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • I used fresh loquats to make a delicious fruit jam.

  • During our picnic, we enjoyed the juicy loquats we picked from the garden.

Synonyms

stone fruit
vsloquat
2 3.4

A soft juicy fruit with one hard seed inside, like a peach or cherry

is a specific small semitropical fruit rather than this broad category
Japanese plum
vsloquat
6.5

A small yellow fruit with a large stone and little flesh used for jam

has the same description but is known by a different common name

Compounds

loquat tree
7.5

A small evergreen tree that grows in warm places and makes sweet, fuzzy yellow fruit with a large seed

How Ripe

overripe
7 3.0
loquat
1 9.6

Surface Forms

loquat singular
loquats plural

Etymology

Loquat comes from Chinese and entered English through Cantonese trade words. It sounds like kumquat, another small fruit, so you can remember a loquat is a sweet, yellow, olive-sized fruit often eaten fresh or made into jam.