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    BITTER ORANGE TREE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stockplay

    Synonyms:

    bigarade; bitter orange; bitter orange tree; Citrus aurantium; marmalade orange; Seville orange; sour orange

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("bitter orange tree" is a kind of...):

    orange; orange tree (any citrus tree bearing oranges)

    Meronyms (parts of "bitter orange tree"):

    bitter orange; Seville orange; sour orange (highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade)

    Holonyms ("bitter orange tree" is a member of...):

    genus Citrus (orange; lemon; lime; etc.)

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