bitter orange

Questions about bitter orange

What does bitter orange mean?

bitter orange means "any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bitter orange?

Close synonyms include sour orange, Seville orange, bitter orange tree, bigarade, marmalade orange. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bitter orange a common word?

bitter orange is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.