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Kumquat(recipes)
Flambeed bananas with kumquat marmalade sauce(recipes)

kumquat (iou)



kumquat noun. Also cumquat. L17.
[Chinese (Cantonese) kam kwat lit. 'gold orange'.]
A small citrus fruit, like a miniature orange, from any of several Far Eastern trees of the genus Fortunella, esp. F. japonica and F. margarita; the tree producing this, cultivated in China and Japan. L17.
More fully native kumquat. A citrus tree of NE Australia, Eremocitrus glauca; the plum-sized acid fruit of this. Austral. L19.