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citrus

[si-truhs] / ˈsɪ trəs /
NOUN
fruit, tree of orange, lemon, etc.
Synonyms
STRONG
bergamot calamondin citron clementine grapefruit kumquat lemon lime mandarin orange pomelo satsuma shaddock tangelo tangerine yuzu




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Once the texture is right, I finish with whatever gives the soup its final bit of life: herbs, citrus zest, salt, black pepper, maybe cream.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

A room that smells like citrus, pine, or flowers is often associated with cleanliness.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

"But clean air should not smell like highly concentrated citrus fruit. It should not really smell of anything."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Florida’s orange production is down 95% since the arrival of a disease called citrus greening, which causes fruit to drop before it is ripe, and leaves it tasting bitter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Amazed that it could be out here, where once only citrus trees had been.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

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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