CITRUSES Synonyms

• yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh

• a strong yellow color

• a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit

• a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons

• an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory

• a caustic substance produced by heating limestone

• a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

• a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds

• any of various related trees bearing limes

• any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber

• the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees

• spread birdlime on branches to catch birds

• cover with lime so as to induce growth

• round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees

• a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean

• orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow

• any citrus tree bearing oranges

• any pigment producing the orange color

• of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange

• a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin

• any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa

• a reddish to vivid orange color

• of a strong reddish orange color