WordNet
n. any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock [syn: Seville orange, bitter orange, bitter orange tree, bigarade, marmalade orange, Citrus aurantium]
highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade [syn: bitter orange, Seville orange]
Usage examples of "sour orange".
Once there was a gazebo, and a walled kitchen garden, and several plots of ornamentals, and a lily pond with goldfish in it, and a steam-heated glass conservatory, demolished now, that grew ferns and fuschias and the occasional spindly lemon and sour orange.
Connie Alvarez here, and Miz Connie owns and operates To-Co Groves up to Frostproof, right in my backyard, which you may have heard of even down here in the wilderness, it being near three hundred thousand trees, prime Valencia on sour orange root stock, and she has enough legal battles going at all times with the Citrus Commission and the growers association and the concentrate plant she's got a stock interest in to keep me right busy in my declining years.
Like the sour orange, olive trees also withstand our rare cold spells.
The maid delivered his ham and eggs, cold toast in a little rack, tomato juice, and a tub of sour orange marmalade.
The neighborhood streetlights had been converted to sodium-vapor bulbs that cast a sour orange glow over the grass and sidewalk.