zizyphahttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zizypha_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezizypha, n.
Revised 2021

† zizyphanoun

Obsolete.
  1. 1546–1775
    The fruit of the zizyphus; = jujube n. 1a. Also: a zizyphus tree or bush (= jujube n. 1b).
    In some instances (e.g. perhaps quots. 1546, 1675) treated as plural.
    1. 1546
      Zizepha [Latin zizipha] and Tuberes S. Papinius conueyed oute to [read of] Siria and Affrik into Italy.
      T. Langley, translation of P. Vergil, Abridgement of Notable Worke iii. ii. f. lxvii
    2. 1555
      The tree that beareth the frute cauled Zizipha [Latin ziziferae arbori], which the Apothecaries caule Iuiuba.
      R. Eden, translation of Peter Martyr of Angleria, Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 56
    3. 1675
      Zizipha lenifie a Cough.
      G. Thomson, Ορθο-μέθοδος ἰατρο-χυμικὴ: Direct Method curing Chymically xvi. 140
    4. 1712
      Jujuba, or Zizipha, a large Fruit of the Ziziph Tree.
      J. Browne, translation of P. Pomet et al. Compleat History of Druggs vol. I. 134
    5. 1775
      Zizipha, called also olea sylvester, elæagnus, oleaster Cappadocicus, wild jujube, or olive of Bohemia.
      G. Motherby, New Medical Dictionary at Jujuba

zizypha, n. was revised in March 2021.

zizypha, n. was last modified in July 2023.