Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A berry having a thickened leathery rind and juicy pulp divided into segments, as an orange or other citrus fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a fleshy fruit with a leathery rind, formed from a free many-celled ovary: a mere variety of the berry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several kinds of
berries having pulpy interiors, and leathery skins containing aromatic oils. Includescitrus fruit such as the lemon and lime.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, from Hesperides, land where golden apples grow.]
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Linnaeus gave the name Hesperideae to an order containing the genus Citrus, in allusion to the golden apples of the Hesperides. The hesperid- stem is now used to form technical terms, such as hesperidin, relating to the citrus fruits.
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