The Collaborative International Dictionary
citrus tree \cit"rus tree`\ (s[i^]t"r[u^]s tr[=e]`), n. (Bot.) same as citrus[2].
Citrus \Cit"rus\ (s[i^]t"r[u^]s), n. [L., a citron tree.]
(Bot.) A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, citron, grapefruit, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.
(Bot.) any tree belonging to the genus Citrus, having leathery evergreen leaves and bearing a soft pulpy fruit covered by a thick skin; -- called also citrus tree.
(Bot.) the fruit of a tree belonging to the genus Citrus, having a thick shiny skin and a soft, sweet to tart pulp.
WordNet
n. any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds [syn: citrus]
Usage examples of "citrus tree".
Instead of a citrus tree, cultivate in glass the juice vesicles of lemons, say, in a growth medium rich m just those chemicals which instruct the cells to develop into juice sacs.
A citrus tree was in bloom, and half the daffodils had survived being trampled.
Creepers wound about thin doweling set high in the wall* and a miniature citrus tree bore grafted branches of oranges* limes and lemons, surviving with only window light and love for nourishment.
He saw an old Oriental and a young man with thick wrists walk by, talking to a middle-aged man who looked as if he had been carved from the trunk of a citrus tree.