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SWEET ORANGE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Orange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sweet orange" is a kind of...):

orange (round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sweet orange"):

Jaffa orange (sweet almost seedless orange of Israel)

navel orange (seedless orange enclosing a small secondary fruit at the apex)

Valencia orange (variety of sweet orange cultivated extensively in Florida and California)

Holonyms ("sweet orange" is a part of...):

Citrus sinensis; sweet orange; sweet orange tree (probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges

Synonyms:

Citrus sinensis; sweet orange; sweet orange tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sweet orange" is a kind of...):

orange; orange tree (any citrus tree bearing oranges)

Meronyms (parts of "sweet orange"):

sweet orange (orange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skin)

Holonyms ("sweet orange" is a member of...):

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

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