cuprous
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Other topics discussed at Aberdeen: Vitamin C. Precisely two centuries ago British mariners discovered that scurvy could be prevented or cured by eating citrous fruits.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if the restrictions were removed, loud would be the angry cries of the U.S. growers of citrous fruits, of U.S. labor, U.S. bootleggers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thermal scales of p 22 cultivated plants, going down from the vanilla, cacoa, and musaceae, by citrous and olives, and to vines yielding potable wines.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
This, with the natural rainfall, is sufficient for citrous Fruits and for corn and alfalfa, in soil not too sandy, and it is too much for grapes and all deciduous fruits.
From A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California by Dowsett, C. F. (Charles Finch)
Fruits of the citrous family were found in abundance; wild cherries, wild grapes, figs, and an apple of amazing proportions and exceeding sweetness.
From West Wind Drift by McCutcheon, George Barr
