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Sour orange

noun

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, Seville orange.

Highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade. Synonyms: bitter orange, Seville orange.

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"Sour orange" Quotes from Famous Books

... all sorts of little fancy boxes and balls, which the children received with cries of delight. Just as we were rising from table, the Professor's niece asked, "And what is our Antonia doing?" Krespel's face was like that of one who has bitten of a sour orange and wants to look as if it were a sweet one; but this expression soon changed into the likeness of a hideous mask, whilst he laughed behind it with downright bitter, fierce, and as it seemed to me, satanic scorn. ...

— Weird Tales. Vol. I • E. T. A. Hoffmann

Words linked to "Sour orange" : orange tree, genus Citrus, orange, bitter orange, Citrus aurantium