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Synonyms for jujube

chewy fruit-flavored jellied candy (sometimes medicated to soothe a sore throat)

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Caption: Dried jujubes are a value-added fruit produced by the Hi Desert Jujube Cooperative.
The delegation is back this year to promote three of its speciality crops - guavas, jujubes and dragon fruit.
pallens are serious insect pests of jujube. Pest monitoring with direct count and light trap can help to determine the ETL that is most important for the management of various insect pests including these major and minor pest.
Replacing maize with alternative feed sources (AFS) such as Chinese jujubes, brewer's grains or tofu residues may prove economically advantageous.
I can load 'em up with all kinds of gear, ranging from extra bullets and Band-Aids, to my secret stash of Jujubes. I've heard these vests called shoot-me-first vests." The bad guys will be able to pick you out of a crowd as the guy carrying a gun, and they'll shoot you first, and then complete their armed robbery.
True, they have sharp edges and kiddies probably die of lead poisoning if they are foolish enough to treat them as jujubes, but you can subject them to repeated multiple pile-ups without so much as scratching their paintwork.
"It's like looking at the sun." I was there to stock up on hard gummy candies, Jujubes, and she was there to purchase Italian candies that could not be purchased anywhere else--apparently they had every flavor but violet, the one she was looking for.
The school, highly leveraged, went under, but Romney made 24 million Jujubes on the deal.
Be as anti-elitist as you like, but when the surgeon comes in to open up your skull to see what that big dark spot on the CT scan was, you don't want him to be wearing a humorous T-shirt ("Hey It IS Brain Surgery") and eating Jujubes. You board the DC-10 to London and you'd like to see a lean guy with a military-style crew cut, an overachiever, not a guy with hair in his eyes who is really, really into his own music.
The drinks market has gone healthy with Coca-Cola Co introducing a new bottled spring water in Japan last month after expanding its product lines in Hong Kong with drinks flavoured with preserved almonds, jujubes and pears.
220-226] hated that his younger brother the King of Rencheng was valiant and strong and took advantage of their playing go together in Empress Dowager Bian's chambers while eating jujubes. Emperor Wen, having put poison in the stem ends of some, picked out the edible ones and ate them.
with its jars of mint balls, jujubes, paradise plums.
Journey with me now to the land of plant communications, specifically those with "fleshy fruits." We're talking tomatoes, bananas, citrus, pineapples, dates, persimmons, pears, apples, mangos, avocados, papayas and jujubes (if you're like me and have never seen a jujube, check out the July/August 2007 Mail Call).