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Citrus   /sˈɪtrəs/   Listen
Citrus

noun
1.
Any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions.  Synonyms: citrous fruit, citrus fruit.
2.
Any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds.  Synonym: citrus tree.



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"Citrus" Quotes from Famous Books



... forest paths. The cocoa-nut palm still produces fruit abundantly, but is said to be deficient in oil. Oranges thrive better than below, producing abundance of delicious fruit; but the shaddock or pumplemous (Citrus decumana) requires the full force of a tropical sun, for it will not thrive even at Tondano a thousand feet lower. On the hilly slopes rice is cultivated largely, and ripens well, although the temperature rarely or never rises to 80 deg., so that ...
— The Malay Archipelago - Volume I. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace

... Here, in Cuba, we grow sugar, tobacco, pineapples, and citrus fruit, like oranges, grapefruit and lemons. Does America, which made us a republic, help us? No, Young Senor, it hurts us, hinders us, cripples us. In Hawaii, in Porto Rico, in the southern part of the United States, live our sugar, tobacco ...
— Plotting in Pirate Seas • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... I, at a parapet table atop the 200-story General Aviation Building. The efficient robot waiter of the Sky Club had cleared away the remnants of an epicurean meal. Only a bowl of golden fruit remained—globes of nectar picked in the citrus groves of California ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various



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