citron
noun
a pale-yellow fruit resembling the lemon but larger and with thicker rind, borne by a small tree or large bush, Citrus medica, allied to the lemon and lime.
citrons
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pluralof citron.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Some trees that had produced hundreds of citrons a year earlier didn’t make any fruit at all — “complete blanks,” he called them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Once back home in Lakewood, N.J., the rabbi would distribute the citrons to family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
The crop was too small and too late to justify a trip from Rothberg and his colleagues to inspect the citrons at the farm and assign them grades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Mandarins, pomelos, citrons, kumquats and papeda were likely main, original biological species.
From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2023
There are still two citrons and if I cut open one there would still be one left.”
From Czechoslovak Fairy Tales by Parker Fillmore
