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CITRUS TREE

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Meaning:

Any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds

Synonyms:

citrus; citrus tree

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("citrus tree" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "citrus tree"):

citrous fruit; citrus; citrus fruit (any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "citrus tree"):

orange; orange tree (any citrus tree bearing oranges)

Citrus decumana; Citrus grandis; Citrus maxima; pomelo; pomelo tree; pummelo; shaddock (southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits)

citron; citron tree; Citrus medica (thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind)

Citrus paradisi; grapefruit (citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp)

Citrus reticulata; mandarin; mandarin orange; mandarin orange tree (shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia)

Citrus tangelo; tangelo; tangelo tree; ugli fruit (hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida)

Citrus limonia; lemanderin; rangpur; rangpur lime (hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel)

Citrus limon; lemon; lemon tree (a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit)

Citrus aurantifolia; lime; lime tree (any of various related trees bearing limes)

citrange; citrange tree; Citroncirus webberi (more aromatic and acidic than oranges)

cumquat; kumquat; kumquat tree (any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Fortunella bearing small orange-colored edible fruits with thick sweet-flavored skin and sour pulp)

Holonyms ("citrus tree" is a member of...):

genus Citrus (orange; lemon; lime; etc.)

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