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Citron

noun

Large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved.

Thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind. Synonyms: citron tree, Citrus medica.

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... a failure, in spite of peaches and cream and a delicious cake full of plums and citron. When it was over they went into the parlor to play. The game of "Twenty Questions" was the first one chosen. Miss Inches played too. The ...

— Nine Little Goslings • Susan Coolidge

... Apple-blossom, Citron, Pomegranate, We, clothed of God without our toil and fret, We offer fatness ...

— Poems • Christina G. Rossetti

... among us at Petite-Saens was mostly drinking and gambling. That is not half as bad as it sounds. The drinking was mostly confined to the slushy French beer and vin blanc and citron. Whiskey and absinthe ...

— A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes

... swains, that I may hunt The boar and tiger through savannahs wild, Through fragrant deserts and through citron groves," ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... its last repose. Still the vain world abounds in strife and hate, And sire and son provoke each other's fate; And kindred blood by kindred hands is shed, And vengeance sleeps not—dies not, with the dead. All nature fades—the garden's treasures fall, Young bud, and citron ripe—all ...

— Persian Literature, Volume 1,Comprising The Shah Nameh, The - Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan • Anonymous

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