Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like lemon in taste or smell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective tasting like lemons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being
lemon -like , especially in terms oftaste . - adjective Of or pertaining to
lemons .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tasting sour like a lemon
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Examples
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 05:04 PM on a website it said"a book a year" danial handleraka lemony snicket.
The most unfortunate event in a series of unfortunate events 2004
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Mr. Beetz, who works out by rowing, running or playing tennis four to five times a week, chooses a sportier scent that smells "lemony" when he's applying fragrance after a post-workout shower.
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Seriously, these would go really well with a lot of things: on top of yogurt, served with some kind of lemony pound cake, maybe even on top of a green salad as a side dish.
Middle Eastern Agrodolce Strawberries roopa 2008
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If a gorgeous pile of tiny purple potatoes presents itself to her at a farmer's market, she will come home and whip up a purple potato salad garnished with herbs from her garden and serve it with cold roasted Moroccan chicken and some kind of lemony orzo and a stone fruit cobbler into which she has tossed some blackberries that looked good to her: a delicious meal created on the fly with the confidence of an excellent cook who no longer particularly needs a recipe.
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Fresh green coriander seeds — brought to market by farmers whose plants are going to seed — lend a lemony, peppery tang to cubed, raw salmon.
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Or making a salad that I can pick up, by topping toasted flatbread with lemony avocado spread and shaved veggies.
Anna Watson Carl: 6 Healthy Winter Salads... Hold the Lettuce Anna Watson Carl 2012
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The stripes of the purer colors that seem to project are luminous, especially on "Six Grays + RYB" (2006), where they're two-toned (e.g., a buttery yellow next to a lemony one).
Familiarity Does Little to Excite Peter Plagens 2011
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Or making a salad that I can pick up, by topping toasted flatbread with lemony avocado spread and shaved veggies.
Anna Watson Carl: 6 Healthy Winter Salads... Hold the Lettuce Anna Watson Carl 2012
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I found, after it had sat for a few minutes, the lemony-Dr Peppery-esque flavour started to come out more, and I started to like it better than before.
Archive 2009-01-11 Tyler 2009
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I found, after it had sat for a few minutes, the lemony-Dr Peppery-esque flavour started to come out more, and I started to like it better than before.
Wouldn't you like to heat a Pepper, too? Tyler 2009
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