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English Dictionary: kumquat by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
kumquat
n
  1. any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
    Synonym(s): kumquat, cumquat, kumquat tree
  2. small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulp
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Kumquat \Kum"quat\, n. [Chin. kin keu.] (Bot.)
      A small tree of the genus {Citrus} ({C. Japonica}) growing in
      China and Japan; also, its small acid, orange-colored fruit
      used for preserves.
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