wild orange

Questions about wild orange

What does wild orange mean?

wild orange means "small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for wild orange?

Close synonyms include trifoliate orange, trifoliata, Poncirus trifoliata, cherry laurel, laurel cherry. 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 wild orange a common word?

wild 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.