loquat

noun

yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh

evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone

Roots

loulo- · Chinese · reed, rush kwatquat- · Chinese · orange

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