trifoliate orange

trifoliate orange
noun
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
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Poncirus, ↑genus Poncirus

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noun
: a hardy deciduous Chinese orange (Poncirus trifoliata) that has trifoliolate leaves and small fragrant very acid fruits and is widely cultivated for ornament or hedging and especially as a stock for budding various table oranges

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a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.

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trifoliate orange,
a Chinese orange tree with trifoliate leaves and a very acid, inedible, orangelike fruit. The trifoliate orange is grown as an ornament and as grafting stock for edible citrus fruits.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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