kumquat
Noun
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Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp (synset 112733823)
is a type of: citrus, citrus tree - any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rindssubtypes:
- fortunella japonica, marumi, marumi kumquat, round kumquat - shrub bearing round-fruited kumquats
- fortunella margarita, nagami, nagami kumquat, oval kumquat - shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats
belongs to: fortunella, genus fortunella - small genus of shrubs native to south China producing small ovoid fruits resembling oranges: includes kumquatshas: kumquat - small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulpsame as: cumquat, kumquat tree -
Small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp (synset 107765422)
is a type of: citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit - any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regionsis a part of: cumquat, kumquat, kumquat tree - any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
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