citrus
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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
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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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