seville orange

Questions about seville orange

What does seville orange mean?

seville orange means "any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for seville orange?

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

seville 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.