bitter orange tree

1. 1.

   any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock

   Synonymssour orangeSeville orangebitter orangebigarademarmalade orangeCitrus aurantium

   Broaderorange

   Part ofgenus Citrus

   Partsbitter orange

Questions about bitter orange tree

What does bitter orange tree mean?

bitter orange tree means "any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock".

What is another word for bitter orange tree?

Close synonyms include sour orange, Seville orange, bitter orange, 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 tree a common word?

bitter orange tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.