Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A very small orange of about the size of a pigeon's egg, the fruit of the Citrus Aurantium, var. Japonica, very abundant in China and Japan, with a sweet rind and sharp acid pulp. It is used chiefly in preserves. Also spelled
cumquot .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
kumquat .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
kumquat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp
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Examples
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Unless it’s drenched in cumquat brandy, of course.
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Far, far too much, being that I am simultaneously Wiki-ing Sir Francis Bacon and the history of the cumquat (Such an interesting history, by the way.)
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Wikipedia This. Meredith Fineman 2010
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God, the cumquat brandy did the trick this year filtered off three 700ml bottles for the girls.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A Christmas card from the Playboy Mansion. 2009
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Bacon, goes so well with this yummy cumquat jooosh.
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Bangar, having tasted your cumquat brandy, I hereby pronounce you free to dip into anything you want to in this lounge.
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Far, far too much, being that I am simultaneously Wiki-ing Sir Francis Bacon and the history of the cumquat (Such an interesting history, by the way.)
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Wikipedia This. Meredith Fineman 2010
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* NVIDIA cumquat marmalade GeForce ultra-toxic GT 120 with 512MB zoom possum annihilators.
R.I.P. 2009
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Far, far too much, being that I am simultaneously Wiki-ing Sir Francis Bacon and the history of the cumquat (Such an interesting history, by the way.)
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Wikipedia This. Meredith Fineman 2010
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* NVIDIA cumquat marmalade GeForce ultra-toxic GT 120 with 512MB zoom possum annihilators.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Far, far too much, being that I am simultaneously Wiki-ing Sir Francis Bacon and the history of the cumquat (Such an interesting history, by the way.)
Meredith Fineman: Fifty First (J)Dates: Wikipedia This. Meredith Fineman 2010
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