Meaning of citrusses | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“These comprised azalees calceolarius, citrusses, ericas, and a hundred other rare varieties.”

“Imagine, then, the tailspin done by our alleged brain when we read the doin’s of this here new-fangled farm board an’ found that the farmers was fruit men with the [f?]lies, a few natives of Florida which raises citrusses an’ rents an’ whatever else it is that Florida raises, an’ the cotton men.”

“Dr. Tanaka who has been making systematic studies of the citrusses of the world for the last 25 years is an authority on the subject.”

“Also, recycling containers, or bags, that had oranges, lemons, grapefruit, or other citrusses stored in them, that have the grid of about one-fourth inch square on them.”

“(At the beginning of the century, kumquats were classed in the genus Citrus, but it was then decided that they were not quite full-fledged citrusses, so they became fortunellas).”

“Studies on cultivars of mango, guava and some citrusses; extension and training of farmers.”

“‘European fruit, such as apples, pears [hazel?]-nuts, and the like one will indeed not find here in India ..... But on the other hand one has other delicious fruit, not seen in Europe either, like pineapples, banana, pumelo, mangos, oranges, Chinese apples [i.e. oranges], lemons, citrusses, water melons, cashews, coconuts and more of the like, all of which being excellently good of taste.’[…]‘rice, wheat, barley kayang, ginger, sugar, masquinades: multifarious trees [and fruits] (besides) lemons, [citrusses,] oranges, guayavas, pisang, (citrusses, pummel-os, water-)melons, (pumpkins,) pineapples, China root, katjang, aubergines, sweet potatoes, ubes, (warmoes?), cabbage, beet’—words in square brackets are only in the German version, those in parentheses only in the Dutch.”

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