trifoliate orange

noun

a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.

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A naval orange grafted on the wild orange stock might be raggy, not full of juice; while when grafted on the trifoliate orange stock might be heavy and full of juice.