lemon-lime
See also: lemonlime
English
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editlemon-lime (not comparable)
Noun
editlemon-lime (plural lemon-limes)
- a variety of citrus fruit
- 1858, Robert Hogg, The Vegetable Kingdom and Its Products, page 140:
- The Lemon Lime, or Sweet Lemon, is larger than the preceding, of an oblong roundish shape, with protuberances at the point, which is in some cases also puckered.
- 1950, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida State Horticultural Society:
- Perhaps this is the place to recall the rise and fall of the so-called Perrine lemon, the hybrid lemon-lime which was introduced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture about 1931 in the hope that it might enable Florida to compete directly with California for the lemon trade.
- 1989, Robert Earle Johannes, Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Collection of Essays[1]:
- "There are many varieties of citrus including sweet and sour oranges, lemons, limes, lemon-limes, calomondin and pomelo."
- any lemon-lime drink
References
edit- lemon-lime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “lemon-lime”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.