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Definition of Seville orange
1. Noun. Any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock.
Terms within: Bitter Orange, Sour Orange
Group relationships: Genus Citrus
Generic synonyms: Orange, Orange Tree
2. Noun. Highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade.
Generic synonyms: Orange
Group relationships: Bigarade, Bitter Orange, Bitter Orange Tree, Citrus Aurantium, Marmalade Orange, Sour Orange
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seville Orange
Literary usage of Seville orange
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"A Seville orange squeezed into a glass of noble racy old canary ? or a glass of
your right Southam cyder, sweetened with a little old mead, and a hard toast ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"The sour or Seville orange is grown all over the world. ... The Seville orange,
as its name would indicate, is grown on a commercial scale in the vicinity ..."
3. Fruit Recipes: A Manual of the Food Value of Fruits and Nine Hundred by Riley Maria Fletcher Berry (1907)
"And so, when the use of the Seville orange is read of (with no special mention
of its acidity) it is not connected with the "sour" orange; it is already ..."
4. The Cultivated Oranges and Lemons, Etc. of India and Ceylon: With Researches by Emanuel Bonavia (1888)
"In Mangalore, what they call karna is a Seville orange, and I have been ...
The khatta or karna of Upper India is totally different from the Seville orange. ..."
5. The Bible in Spain: Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an by George Henry Borrow, Ulick Ralph Burke (1907)
"Projected Journey—A Scene of Blood—The Friar—Seville- Beauties of Seville—Orange
Trees and Flowers—Murillo— The Guardian Angel—Dionysius—My ..."
6. The Cultivated Oranges and Lemons, Etc. of India and Ceylon: With Researches by Emanuel Bonavia (1888)
"If so, he makes no mention of the Seville orange, and the latter appears to be
the oldest known in Western India, as it is stated it was from there that the ..."
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