citrous fruit

Thesaurus

Noun

1.citrous fruit - any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regionscitrus, citrus fruitedible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet fleshsection - a segment of a citrus fruit; "he ate a section of the orange"orange - round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus treesmandarin orange, mandarin - a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of Chinakumquat - small oval citrus fruit with thin sweet rind and very acid pulplemon - yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic fleshlime - the green acidic fruit of any of various lime treesgrapefruit - large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a halfpomelo, shaddock - large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulpcitrange - more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmaladecitron - large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preservedcitrus tree, citrus - any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds