orange zest

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   tiny bits of orange peel

   Broaderorange peel

Questions about orange zest

What does orange zest mean?

orange zest means "tiny bits of orange peel".

Is orange zest a common word?

orange zest 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.