CITRUS LIMON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Citrus limon mean? 

• CITRUS LIMON (noun)
  The noun CITRUS LIMON has 1 sense:

1. a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit

  Familiarity information: CITRUS LIMON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CITRUS LIMON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Citrus limon; lemon; lemon tree

Hypernyms ("Citrus limon" is a kind of...):

citrus; citrus tree (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)

Meronyms (parts of "Citrus limon"):

lemon (yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Citrus limon"):

Citrus limetta; sweet lemon; sweet lime (lemon tree having fruit with a somewhat insipid sweetish pulp)

Holonyms ("Citrus limon" is a member of...):

genus Citrus (orange; lemon; lime; etc.)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the fruit peel of Citrus limon.

(Lemon Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientific name of the lemon tree is Citrus limon.

(Lemon, NCI Dictionary)