Wiktionary
n. ''Citrus sinensis'', a species of citrus fruit, commonly known as the orange.
WordNet
n. orange with sweet juicy pulp; often thin-skinned
probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges [syn: sweet orange tree, Citrus sinensis]
Usage examples of "sweet orange".
Pitchers of thick cream and baskets of blackberries had been set out, and the guests were sipping a sweet orange-scented wine from engraved silver cups.
Kynes remembered showing Frieth the portyguls when he'd first brought her here, and the look of pleasure on her face when she tasted the honey-sweet orange flesh.
The sweet orange smell of singeing pumpkin flesh drifted in from the houses at the edge of the woods.
The house-lights, all sick sweet orange, came gently up, disclosing applauding people crying bravo, brava, and bravi, as for the Pope's whole family.
Eventually they got tired of this (I did not) and we four moved to a shallow cove, found an unoccupied float table, and Hazel ordered tea-tea with calories: little cakes and sandwiches and sweet orange fruits somewhat like seedless grapes.