jujube

noun

• 1the edible berrylike fruit of a Eurasian plant, formerly taken as a cough cure.
• North American a jujube-flavored lozenge or gumdrop.

• 2 (also jujube bush) the shrub or small tree that produces the jujube fruit, native to the warmer regions of Eurasia.

  • Ziziphus jujuba, family Rhamnaceae