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say it: LEM-uhn
lemon is a noun meaning "yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh". It carries 5 recorded senses.
yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
a strong yellow color
a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit
a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lemon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.