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Citron   /sˈɪtrən/  /sˈɪtrənz/   Listen
noun
Citron  n.  
1.
(Bot) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic; it is produced by the citron tree (Citrus medica). The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. The fruit was once called the lime.
2.
A citron tree, Citrus medica.
3.
A citron melon.
Citron melon.
(a)
A small variety of muskmelon with sugary greenish flesh.
(b)
A small variety of watermelon, whose solid white flesh is used in making sweetmeats and preserves.
Citron tree (Bot.), the tree which bears citrons. It was probably a native of northern India, and is now understood to be the typical form of Citrus Medica.





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"Citron" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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