sweet orange

1. 1.

   orange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skin

   Broaderorange

   NarrowerJaffa orangenavel orangeValencia orange

   Part ofsweet orange
2. 2.

   probably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice oranges

   Synonymssweet orange treeCitrus sinensis

   Broaderorange

   Part ofgenus Citrus

   Partssweet orange

Questions about sweet orange

What does sweet orange mean?

sweet orange means "orange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sweet orange?

Close synonyms include sweet orange tree, Citrus sinensis. 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 sweet orange a common word?

sweet orange is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.