citrus nobilis

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   large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida

   Synonymstemple orangetemple orange treetangorking orange

   Broaderorange

   Part ofgenus Citrus

   Partstemple orange

Questions about citrus nobilis

What does citrus nobilis mean?

citrus nobilis means "large citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Florida".

What is another word for citrus nobilis?

Close synonyms include temple orange, temple orange tree, tangor, king 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 citrus nobilis a common word?

citrus nobilis 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.