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Seville orange   /səvˈɪl ˈɔrəndʒ/   Listen
Seville orange

noun
1.
Any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock.  Synonyms: bigarade, bitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, sour orange.
2.
Highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade.  Synonyms: bitter orange, sour orange.






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"Seville orange" Quotes from Famous Books



... of a pint of melted butter, or good thickened gravy; stir them the same way as you did the melted butter, or it will oil. Some boil and mince fine a few leaves of parsley or chevrel or tarragon, and add to the sauce; others, the juice of half a Seville orange ...
— A Poetical Cook-Book • Maria J. Moss

... call it) is a fruit as big as a pomegranate, and much of the same colour. The outside husk, shell, or rind, is for substance and thickness between the shell of a pomegranate, and the peel of a seville orange; softer than this, yet more brittle than that. The coat or covering is also remarkable in that it is beset round with small regular knobs or risings; and the inside of the fruit is full of a white soft pulp, sweet and very pleasant, and most resembling a custard of any thing, both in colour and taste; ...
— A Voyage to New Holland • William Dampier

... stoned raisins 1 lb., cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and cardamom, each 1 oz., crushed in a mortar, saffron 1/2 oz., or the rind of 1 Seville orange, and a little sugar candy; shake these well, and it is ready for ...
— Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets • Daniel Young



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