citrus

From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros); compare Middle English citurtre, cytyr tre.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪtɹəs/

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citrus (plural citruses or (rare) citrusses or (rare) citri)

1. Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae.
2. The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.

• (fruit): fruit

• citral
• citrange
• citrantin
• citric acid
• citropten
• citrusin
• Citrus County
• citrus greening
• citrus fruit

• citrous

citrus (not generally comparable, comparative more citrus, superlative most citrus)

1. Of, relating to, or similar to citrus plants or fruit.
   • 2001, Robin Shepard, Wisconsin's Best Breweries and Brewpubs, page 61:

     Its nose is very citrus and fruity.

   • 2007, Eric Martin, The Virgin's Guide to Mexico: A Novel, page 176:

     […] and his cologne was more citrus than the usual leatherwood floating in formaldehyde.

   • 2008, Chandler Burr, The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York:

     The problem with AG2 is that it's too citrus.

• citrous

• Curtis, Turcis, rictus, rustic

Borrowed from Latin citrus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɪtrus]
• Hyphenation: ci‧t‧rus

citrus m inan

1. citrus

• citrus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• citrus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from translingual Citrus or Latin citrus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.trʏs/

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• Hyphenation: ci‧trus

citrus f (plural citrussen)

1. A citrus, a tree of the genus Citrus.

   Synonym: citrusboom

2. A citrus fruit, a fruit from a tree of the genus Citrus.

   Synonym: citrusvrucht

3. (Suriname) An orange tree.

   Synonyms: appelsienboom, sinaasappelboom

4. (uncountable, rare) Citrus juice, juice from citrus fruits.

• citrusboom
• citruspers
• citrusvrucht

Probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.trus/, [ˈkɪt̪rʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.trus/, [ˈt͡ʃiːt̪rus]

citrus f (genitive citrī); second declension

1. citron tree
2. thuja

Second-declension noun.

• Translingual: Citrus
• French: citron
• → English: citrine, citron, citrus
• Italian: cedro
• Lombard: zeder
• Piedmontese: sitron

• “citrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• citrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• rictus