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ˈorange-tree
The tree which bears oranges.
1530Palsgr. 249/1 Orenge tree, orengier. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 8 No more wyll the Orange tree bringe foorth fruit in Englande. 1588Drake in Four C. Eng. Lett. (1880) 32 He shall wish hymselff at Sainte Marie Porte among his orynge trees. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 375 A covered walk of cedar and orange-trees planted alternately. 1856Bryant Child's Funeral iv, Currents of fragrance, from the orange tree. 1866Treas. Bot. 293/1 The Orange tree at the convent of St. Sabina at Rome is thirty-one feet high.
b. New Zealand orange-tree, a name given to the Tarata, from the aromatic odour of its leaves when crushed (Morris Austral Engl.). |