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citrus

[si-truhs] / ˈsɪ trəs /
NOUN
fruit, tree of orange, lemon, etc.
Synonyms
STRONG
bergamot calamondin citron clementine grapefruit kumquat lemon lime mandarin orange pomelo satsuma shaddock tangelo tangerine yuzu




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In 1999, the 69-year-old great-grandmother helped obtain extra government benefits for workers who lost their jobs in a citrus freeze and stared across the contract bargaining table at lawyers for the giant Gallo wine company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Chop herbs, grate cheese, cut citrus wedges and assemble any salads, keeping the greens and dressing separate.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

And for non-drinkers, I’d make a sparkling citrus “punch” with good sparkling water, fresh juice and oversized ice cubes containing frozen citrus rounds.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

"But clean air should not smell like highly concentrated citrus fruit. It should not really smell of anything."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

“It’s a Quonset hut. They had a lot of them left over after World War II. Some of the citrus farmers bought ’em up cheap, as war surplus.”

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

And fruits, which range from varieties of pear to bright citruses like orange and grapefruit.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

L’Agrumiste makes its cake with only orange, but Ms. Greenspan favors experimenting with other citruses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The one I sampled was ambrosial and diametrically opposed to the anemic citruses I’m used to, which tend to be picked before their time and left to ripen slowly under grocery-store fluorescents.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022

The findings, published in Nature, revealed that modern citruses can be traced back to an 8-million-year-old ancestor.

From Nature ● Jun. 18, 2019

Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements are full on Fridays, and home also to the Bataclan, a pagoda-like theatre painted in vivid yellows, reds and citruses, which looms over the Boulevard Voltaire like an eccentric aunt.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2015


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