lemon
About 4.56 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A yellowish citrus fruit.
- noun A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
- noun A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
lemon flesh:
- noun Lemon juice.
- noun A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
- noun A defective or inadequate item or individual.
He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.
- noun Favor.
A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.
- noun A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
Similar words
maize gamboge citrus limon lemon tree lemon yellow limon citric citrus citron lime
Often followed by
juice and peel or rind yellow zest trees wedges
Word family
lemons lemony
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