citrus

Meaning of citrus

noun
  1. Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae.
  2. The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.

adjective

Of or relating to citrus plants or fruit.

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Hyphenation of citrus

cit-rus

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • citrus is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of citrus

Anagrams of citrus

Curtis, rictus, rustic

Words that rhyme with citrus

Quinquatrus, Citrus, Microcitrus, Holocentrus, Macrocentrus, Pomacentrus, holocentrus, intrus, pomacentrus, Celastrus, Rhinoestrus, anestrus, celastrus, diestrus, estrus, metestrus, oestrus, proestrus

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