The dolichos grows, covering the jujube trees; The convolvulus spreads all over the tombs.
They flit about, the yellow birds, And rest upon the jujube trees [1].
O Rakshasas, I have come with my brothers to the jujube named Visala.
And having pleasantly passed one night in his sacred abode frequented by gods and Maharshis, those great warriors proceeded smoothly towards the jujube tree called Visala and took up their quarters there.
And having passed the source of the Ganga, we have seen many a lovely hill and the Himalaya mountains, inhabited by various species of birds, and also the jujube named Visala, where there is the hermitage of Nara and Narayana.
And standing on one leg and with uplifted hand, that lord of men did severe penance in the jujube forest called Visala.
Of this Sister Colomba Matarazzo tells us that she ate not nor drank, save sometimes some jujube fruit, and even these but rarely.
Thence for a league your way pursue, And a dark wood shall meet your view, Where tall bamboos their foliage show, The Gum-tree and the Jujube grow.
The jungle I found to consist chiefly of thorny bushes, Jujube of two species, an Acacia and Butea frondosa, the twigs of the latter often covered with lurid red tears of Lac, which is here collected in abundance.
The upper levels are gravelly, and loosely covered with scattered thorny jujube bushes, occasionally tenanted by the Florican, which scours these downs like a bustard.
She had bought for herself some jujube paste, but in returning had lost the other dime.
But the jujube has the disagreeable habit of sending up root sprouts which are a nuisance to destroy and, because the tree is grafted, the sprouts are worthless seedlings.
It has occurred to me that this bad feature of the jujube might be partly offset if cuttings of the improved varieties could be made to grow by means of some of the root inducing chemicals.
Zizyphus Jujuba differs from Paliurus chiefly in its fruit, which resembles a small plum, and from the fruit of which the Jujube lozenges are made.
As seen in commerce jujube fruits are about the size of a small filbert, having a reddish-brown, shining, somewhat wrinkled exterior, and a yellow or gingerbread coloured pulp enclosing a hard elongated stone.
A kind of thick paste, known as jujube paste, was also made of a composition of gum arabic and sugar dissolved in a decoction of jujube fruit evaporated to the proper consistency.
Haint I give you ounces on ounces of jujube paste, emptied a hull jar of lemon drops, and more than half kept you in pearl powder and cold cream?
And they also beheld that beautiful jujubeof round trunk.
And they proceeded towards the gigantic jujube tree.
And having pleasantly passed one night in his sacred abode frequented by gods and Maharshis, those great warriors proceeded smoothly towards the jujube tree called Visala and took up their quarters there.
With bows of peach wood and arrows of the thorny jujube they shoot at the spectres, and with porcelain drums they drum at them; moreover they throw red balls and cereals at them, in order to remove disease and calamity.
Ten thousand lads with red heads and black clothes, with bows of peach wood and arrows of thorny jujubeshoot at random all around.
In Algeria the jujubeis only cultivated or half-wild.
The jujube tree is now wild in dry places from Egypt to Marocco, in the south of Spain, Terracina, and the neighbourhood of Palermo.
According to Pliny,[945] the jujube tree was brought from Syria to Rome by the consul Sextus Papinius, towards the end of the reign of Augustus.
Bretschneider[948] mentions the jujube as one of the fruits most prized by the Chinese, who give it the simple name tsao.
Brandis[950] gives seven different names for the jujube tree (or for its varieties) in modern Indian languages, but no Sanskrit name is known.
This jujube is cultivated further south than the common kind, but its area is equally extensive.
The result of the search for the origin of the jujube tree as a wild plant bears out Pliny's assertion, in spite of the objections I have just mentioned.
The fruit of this jujube is not worthy of attention except from an historical point of view.
The jujube itself has been used for years to flavor candies and other confections.
Mention that to the average person and he will answer: "But I thought the jujube was a fruit, like an apple.
The jujube is delicious eaten raw, but it may be cooked in any manner in which apples are prepared, used as a sauce or for pie, preserved or dried.
Taft, in the Technical World Magazine, presents the following wild menu for the dinner table: Jujube Soup Brisket of Antelope Boiled Petsai Dasheen au Gratin Creamed Udo Soy Bean and Lichee Nut Salad Yang Taw Pie Mangoes Kaki Sake.
The Jujube and Acacias were here observed to be on a large scale, especially in the lowest ground.
Sometimes the centre is occupied by an islet of torn trees and stones rolled in heaps, supporting a clump of thick jujube or tall acacia, whilst the lower parts of the beds are overgrown with long lines of lively green colocynth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jujube" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: berry; chocolate; fruit; fudge; orange
