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CITRUS AURANTIUM

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Meaning:

Any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock

Synonyms:

bigarade; bitter orange; bitter orange tree; Citrus aurantium; marmalade orange; Seville orange; sour orange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Citrus aurantium" is a kind of...):

orange; orange tree (any citrus tree bearing oranges)

Meronyms (parts of "Citrus aurantium"):

bitter orange; Seville orange; sour orange (highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade)

Holonyms ("Citrus aurantium" is a member of...):

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

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