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Citrus

A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

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Citron 76% connected

A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.

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Kumquat 76% connected

A small tree of the genus Citrus (C. Japonica) growing in China and Japan; also, its small acid, orange-colored fruit used for preserves.

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Lemon 76% connected

An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus,…

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Lime 76% connected

A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.

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Mandarin 76% connected

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

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Orange 76% connected

The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus (C. Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a lea…

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Pomelo 76% connected

A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit.

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Shaddock 76% connected

A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.

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Section 70% connected

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

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