marmalade orange

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssour orangeSeville orangebitter orangebitter orange treebigaradeCitrus aurantium

   Broaderorange

   Part ofgenus Citrus

   Partsbitter orange

Questions about marmalade orange

What does marmalade orange mean?

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

What is another word for marmalade orange?

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

marmalade orange 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.