Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Properly the citron, a variety of
Citrus medica , with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.
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- noun archaic The
citron tree. - noun archaic The
citron fruit.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is a fragrance built around this special fruit called cedrat; it is close to bergamot, lemon and orange.
Archive 2007-08-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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I mixed the cedrat oil with a spicy note: pepper, which enhances the freshness.
Archive 2007-08-01 Marina Geigert 2007
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However, on lesser scales, other petitgrains are also produced, which have a unique aroma: petitgrain lemon, petitgrain cedrat (citron) and petitgrain combarva (kaffir lime).
Archive 2007-05-01 Ayala Sender 2007
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However, on lesser scales, other petitgrains are also produced, which have a unique aroma: petitgrain lemon, petitgrain cedrat (citron) and petitgrain combarva (kaffir lime).
Pondering Citrus: Ayala Sender 2007
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Other petitgrain essential oils are available in far lesser quantities, such as: petitgrain lemon, petitgrain combarva from the kaffir lime tree and petitgrain cedrat.
Bitter Orange or Bergamot - The Giving Tree Award Goes To Whom? Ayala Sender 2007
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Other petitgrain essential oils are available in far lesser quantities, such as: petitgrain lemon, petitgrain combarva from the kaffir lime tree and petitgrain cedrat.
Archive 2007-05-01 Ayala Sender 2007
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The present oil of cedar (ol cedrat of commerce) cannot be intended, as that is made from the citron, and being merely an essential oil can have little of the antiseptic or corrosive qualities imputed to the ancient oil of cedars.
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Citron, Citrus limonum, supposed by some Rabbis to be intended in the text of Lev., xxiii, 40; "boughs of hadar", used regularly in the service of the synagogue and hardly distinguishable from cedrat.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Health has often been restored when life and death trembled in the balance, by the mere sprinkling of essence of cedrat in a sick chamber.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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What is called extract of cedrat is made by dissolving two ounces of the above essential oil of citron in one pint of spirits, to which some perfumers add half an ounce of bergamot.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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