Nearby Words
1.
any small tree or spiny shrub of the genus Citrus, of the rue family, including the lemon, lime, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, citron, kumquat, and shaddock, widely cultivated for fruit or grown as an ornamental.
2.
the tart-to-sweet, pulpy fruit of any of these trees or shrubs, having a characteristically smooth, shiny, stippled skin.
adjective
3.
Also, cit·rous. of or pertaining to such trees or shrubs, or their fruit.
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Citrous
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Origin:
1815–25; < Neo-Latin, Latin: citron tree
1815–25; < Neo-Latin, Latin: citron tree
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
citrus
1825, from Mod.L. genus name, from L. citron, name of a tree with lemon-like fruit, the first citrus fruit available in the West. The name, like the tree, is probably of Asiatic origin. But Klein traces it to Gk. kedros "cedar," and writes that the change of dr into tr shows that the word came from Greek
EXPANDinto Latin through the medium of the Etruscans. Citric first recorded 1800.
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