loquat . ( Of the lat. ) vulg. * nespirum, and this of the Tal. ( mespilum ). 1. m. tree in the family Rosaceae, with tortuous, thin trunk and branches open and somewhat thorny leaves are petiolate, large, elliptic, hard, entire or toothed in half top, green for the beam and lanuginosas on the underside; the flowers are white, axillary and almost sitting, and by the níspola fruit. It is spontaneous, but it is also cultivated. 2. m. fruit of this tree. It is aovado, yellowish, reddish, about three centimeters in diameter, crowned by the lacinias of the chalice, hard and acerbo when seen from the tree (l); soft, pulpy, sweet and edible when it is past.