loquat

Other forms of loquat

plural

loquats·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about loquat

What does loquat mean?

loquat means "evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in loquat?

loquat has 2 syllables: loq-uat. The stress falls on "loq". In IPA it is /ˈloʊˌkwɑt/.

What is another word for loquat?

Close synonyms include loquat tree, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum, Eriobotrya japonica, Japanese plum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is loquat a common word?

loquat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.