| 单词 | rough lemon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrough lemon rough lemon n. a kind of lemon tree, Citrus x jambhiri, often used as a rootstock for raising other citrus fruits; (also) the fruit of this tree, which has thick skin and relatively little juice compared to other varieties and so is rarely cultivated.The rough lemon is thought to be a hybrid between the lemon and the citron, but its exact taxonomic position is unresolved. ΚΠ 1878 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily News 21 Apr. (Suppl.) The rough lemon is growing scarce, but the smooth one and the limes are always present like our poor. 1929 Plant Physiol. 4 113 A smooth bud union results when these standard varieties are grown on rough-lemon rootstock. 1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) v. 100 Fruit grown on rough lemon stock is often coarse and has a rather low sugar and acid content. 2006 A. Green Starting with Ingredients 534/2 The Rough Lemon, which is perhaps a lemon-citron hybrid, is believed to have originated in northern India, where it grows wild. < as lemmas |
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