sweet orange

sweet orange
noun
1. orange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skin (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms: ↑orange
• Hyponyms: ↑Jaffa orange, ↑navel orange, ↑Valencia orange
• Part Holonyms: ↑sweet orange tree, ↑Citrus sinensis
2. probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges
• Hypernyms: ↑orange, ↑orange tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Citrus

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noun
: an orange (Citrus sinensis) that is prob. native to southern China or other parts of southeastern Asia, has a fruit with a pithy central axis, and is the source of the widely cultivated table and juice oranges; also : a culitvated orange derived from this species and usually having fruit with relatively thin skin and a sweet juicy edible pulp — compare sour orange

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sweet orange
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Main Entry: ↑orange

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sweet orange,
the common orange, an evergreen tree of the rue family with fragrant white blossoms and oval leaves.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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