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SWEET ORANGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Orange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("sweet orange" is a kind of...):
orange (round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweet orange"):
Jaffa orange (sweet almost seedless orange of Israel)
navel orange (seedless orange enclosing a small secondary fruit at the apex)
Valencia orange (variety of sweet orange cultivated extensively in Florida and California)
Holonyms ("sweet orange" is a part of...):
Citrus sinensis; sweet orange; sweet orange tree (probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges
Synonyms:
Citrus sinensis; sweet orange; sweet orange tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sweet orange" is a kind of...):
orange; orange tree (any citrus tree bearing oranges)
Meronyms (parts of "sweet orange"):
sweet orange (orange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skin)
Holonyms ("sweet orange" is a member of...):
genus Citrus (orange; lemon; lime; etc.)