loquat tree

Questions about loquat tree

What does loquat tree mean?

loquat tree means "evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan".

What is another word for loquat tree?

Close synonyms include loquat, Japanese medlar, Japanese plum, Eriobotrya japonica. 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 tree a common word?

loquat tree 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.