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/sˈɪtrən tri/ Listen

noun

Citron n.

(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.

A citron tree, Citrus medica.

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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Etymology of 'Citron tree'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Citron tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... right tenderly to every shady copse, I prize the creeping violets, the tall and fragrant hops; The citron tree or spicy grove for me would never yield, A perfume half so grateful as the lilies of the field. Our songsters too, oh! who shall dare to breathe one slighting word, Their plumage dazzles not—yet say can sweeter strains be heard? Let other feathers vaunt ...

— Successful Recitations • Various

... upon him, and pelted him with citrons [which they then had in their hands, because] the law of the Jews required that at the feast of tabernacles every one should have branches of the palm tree and citron tree; which thing we have elsewhere related. They also reviled him, as derived from a captive, and so unworthy of his dignity and of sacrificing. At this he was in a rage, and slew of them about six thousand. He also built a partition-wall of wood round the altar ...

— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus