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lemon tree

n. a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit [syn: lemon, Citrus limon]

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Lemon Tree

Lemon tree or Lemontree may refer to:

  • Lemon myrtle, an Australian native tree with a distinct lemon smell, used in cooking and as an anti-bacterial agent.
  • Citrus limon, the tree bearing the lemon (fruit).

and may also refer to:

Lemon Tree (Fool's Garden song)

"Lemon Tree" is a song by German band Fool's Garden from the album Dish of the Day, which was released as a single in 1995 and became a major international hit in 1996. The single reached number 26 in the UK charts and remained at number one for several weeks in Germany. It also reached number one in Ireland.

The band recorded a new version of the song in prior for their 2009 release High Times - The Best of Fools Garden. The singles " Wild Days" and " Suzy" were also re-recorded for this album.

Lemon Tree (Will Holt song)

"Lemon Tree" is a folk song written by Will Holt in the late 1950s. The tune is based on the Brazilian folk song Meu limão, meu limoeiro, arranged by José Carlos Burle in 1937 and made popular by Brazilian singer Wilson Simonal. The song compares love to a lemon tree: "Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet, but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat."

The song has been recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, Chad & Jeremy, The Kingston Trio, The Seekers, Bob Marley and The Wailers, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Sandie Shaw, and Roger Whittaker. In 1965, Trini Lopez recorded the most successful version of the song which hit number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Billboard Middle Road Singles chart.

In the 1960s, the tune was used in television advertisements for "Lemon Pledge", an aerosol furniture polish. In the early 1980s it was used as the advertising jingle for an identically named lemonade beverage.

The song was referenced in the Seinfeld episode " The Phone Message", and in Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin. It was performed on an episode of F Troop in which the main characters anachronistically form a rock band. It figures prominently in the Eran Riklis film, Lemon Tree (Etz Limon). The song was also referenced in Tim O'Brien's book The Things They Carried; when a fellow soldier named Curt Lemon steps on a booby trap and gets blown into a tree, it is the unsavory job of the protagonist and a squad mate to bring the pieces down. The main character is mildly shocked when his squad mate starts softly singing "Lemon Tree". The song provides the title and epigraph of Andrea Levy's 1999 novel, Fruit of the Lemon. It was also referenced in an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond's third season entitled "The Visit", where Ray changes the words to "Lemon chicken very pretty, and the lemon chicken is sweet, but the chicken of the poor lemon is impossible to eat,' while the family is eating lemon chicken.

Lemon Tree (film)

Lemon Tree is a 2008 Israeli drama film directed by Eran Riklis and co-directed by his cousin Ira Riklis. It stars Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Danny Leshman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Tarik Kopty, Amos Lavi, Lana Zreik and Amnon Wolf. The film describes the legal efforts of a Palestinian widow to stop the Israeli Defense Minister, her next door neighbor, from destroying the lemon trees in her family farm. At the same time, she develops a human bond with the minister's wife. It was released in Israel on 27 March 2008, and it received a tepid response from Israeli audiences. It was released internationally through IFC Films on 17 April 2009. From there, the film has achieved critical success and it has received nominations for several awards such as 'Best Actress' and 'Best Screenwriter' at the European Film Awards.

Usage examples of "lemon tree".

The leaves are ovateoblong, and the stalk is not winged like that of the orange and lemon tree.

Dany had her own room there, with a lemon tree outside her window.

A gentle breeze rose from the earth, and all the leaves of the lemon tree rustled joyously and danced.

This had never been an area where citrus fruits were grown commercially, but lemons had produced well enough, and here and there someone had nursed a lemon tree in his garden.

A dry-burning branch from an old lemon tree at the back of the homestead has fallen onto the roof of the sleep-out and hangs over the side so that one of the window frames is smouldering, not yet alight.

I was at the end of a long table under a lemon tree, and there was a sort of bower next to me with passionflowers, and my neighbor was talking to the person on the other side, and.

It was a little way out onto the grounds, a low wall beside a lemon tree.

In the gathered shadows, he seemed part of the street, as essential to this block as the big old lemon tree that shaded the east side of Sonia's house.