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TRIFOLIATE ORANGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges
Synonyms:
Poncirus trifoliata; trifoliata; trifoliate orange; wild orange
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("trifoliate orange" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Holonyms ("trifoliate orange" is a member of...):
genus Poncirus; Poncirus (one species: trifoliate orange)
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