Word Meanings - CITRUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• LEMON
  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,the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species C. Limonum or C. Medica . There are
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• ORANGE
  The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree. 3. The color of an orange; reddish yellow. Mandarin orange. See Mandarin. -- Mock orange , any species of shrubs of the genus Philadelphus, which have whitish and often fragrant blossoms. -- Native
• CITRON
  A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. 2. A citron tree. 3. A citron melon. Citron melon. A small variety of muskmelon with sugary greenish flesh. A small variety
• ORANGEISM
  Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• ORANGEMAN
  One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.;
• ORANGETAWNY
  Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• SOUTHERNWOOD
  A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
• ORANGEAT
  Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.
• LEMONADE
  A beverage consisting of lemon juice mixed with water and sweetened.
• SOUTHERNMOST
  Farthest south.
• SOUTHERNLY
  Somewhat southern. -- adv.
• ORANGERY
  A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• ORIGINALLY
  1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson. 2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as,
• ORANGEROOT
  An American ranunculaceous plant , having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• SEA ORANGE
  A large American holothurian having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.
• QUERCITRON
  1. The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas. 2. Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.
• WATER LEMON
  The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.