loquat

IPA: ɫˈoʊkwɑt

The Eriobotrya japonica tree.
The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.

Examples of "loquat" in Sentences

They also have a sweet tooth, feeding on fallen fruit such as loquat and jelly palm.
Sokenbicha in Japan is a slightly bitter-tasting brew, a mix of 15 ingredients such as loquat leaves and azuki beans.
Níspero or loquat is a small oval yellow fruit with a slightly acidic pulp, ranging in color from white to yellow-orange.
Japonica, _ in Madeira called the loquat and elsewhere the Japanese medlar: it grows wild in the Brazil, where the people distil from it.
The loquat and the kumquat were missing, ten - and fifteen-foot trees, simply gone, sucked into the sky, just muddy craters where the roots had been.
If going, grab a meal at Çiya Sofrasi, a restaurant that offers delicious and unusual Turkish foods such as loquat kebab (90-216-3303-190; www. ciya.com.tr
In Acatlán and nearby villages, herb and fruit liquors are made with the cane alcohol called aguardiente, with nanche (loquat) being one of the most popular.
To be sure, one of the native fruits seems a sort of joke when you hear it first named, and when you are offered a 'loquat', if you are of a frivolous mind you search your mind for the connection with 'loquor' which it seems to intimate.