GENUS CITRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Citrus mean? 

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

1. orange; lemon; lime; etc.

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CITRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Orange; lemon; lime; etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Citrus"):

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)

orange; orange tree (any citrus tree bearing oranges)

bigarade; bitter orange; bitter orange tree; Citrus aurantium; marmalade orange; Seville orange; sour orange (any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock)

Citrus decumana; Citrus grandis; Citrus maxima; pomelo; pomelo tree; pummelo; shaddock (southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits)

Citrus paradisi; grapefruit (citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp)

Citrus reticulata; mandarin; mandarin orange; mandarin orange tree (shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia)

Citrus sinensis; sweet orange; sweet orange tree (probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges)

Citrus nobilis; king orange; tangor; temple orange; temple orange tree (large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida)

Citrus tangelo; tangelo; tangelo tree; ugli fruit (hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida)

Citrus limonia; lemanderin; rangpur; rangpur lime (hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel)

Citrus limon; lemon; lemon tree (a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit)

Citrus aurantifolia; lime; lime tree (any of various related trees bearing limes)

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

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

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

family Rutaceae; rue family; Rutaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Geraniales; have flowers that are divide into four or five parts and usually have a strong scent)