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lemon

  • noun
  • lĕm'ən

A yellowish citrus fruit.

Other meanings

  1. A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.

  2. A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.

A kind of

  • citrus

Word history

From Sanskrit "निम्बू" (lime).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “lemon” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.