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noun

Lemon n.

(Bot.) An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus, the common fruit known in commerce being that of the species Citrus Limonum or Citrus Medica (var. Limonum). There are many varieties of the fruit, some of which are sweet.

The tree which bears lemons; the lemon tree.

Lemon grass (Bot.), a fragrant East Indian grass (Andropogon Shoenanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery.

Lemon sole (Zool.), a yellow European sole (Solea aurantiaca).

Salts of lemon (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid, which is the characteristic acid of lemon; called also salts of sorrel. It is used in removing ink stains. See Oxalic acid, under Oxalic. (Colloq.)

Sole n. (Zool.)

(a)

Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.

(b)

Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.

Lemon sole, or French sole (Zool.), a European species of sole (Solea pegusa).

Smooth sole (Zool.), the megrim.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lemon sole" Quotes from Famous Books

... know, steward, damn you," he sighed. "I'll have a tedious lemon sole. No—as you were—I'll, have a grilled chop." And, quite spent with this effort, he fell to making balls out of pellets of bread and playing ...

— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond