navel orange

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   seedless orange enclosing a small secondary fruit at the apex

   Broadersweet orange

Questions about navel orange

What does navel orange mean?

navel orange means "seedless orange enclosing a small secondary fruit at the apex".

Is navel orange a common word?

navel 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.