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citruses

  • plural
    of citrus.
    citrus
    noun
    any small tree or spiny shrub of the genus Citrus, of the rue family, including the lemon, lime, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, citron, kumquat, and shaddock, widely cultivated for fruit or grown as an ornamental.

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L’Agrumiste makes its cake with only orange, but Ms. Greenspan favors experimenting with other citruses.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

Possibly the oddest looking of all the citruses, the Buddha's hand has clumps of long, yellow, bumpy "fingers."

From Salon Feb. 13, 2023

The one I sampled was ambrosial and diametrically opposed to the anemic citruses I’m used to, which tend to be picked before their time and left to ripen slowly under grocery-store fluorescents.

From New York Times Feb. 22, 2022

The findings, published in Nature, revealed that modern citruses can be traced back to an 8-million-year-old ancestor.

From Nature Jun. 18, 2019

Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements are full on Fridays, and home also to the Bataclan, a pagoda-like theatre painted in vivid yellows, reds and citruses, which looms over the Boulevard Voltaire like an eccentric aunt.

From The Guardian Nov. 14, 2015

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