Lemon

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English

File:Lemon.jpg
A whole and a cut lemon.
File:Lemon tree Berkeley.JPG
A lemon tree.

Noun

Lemon (plural Lemons)
  1. A yellowish citrus fruit.
  2. A semitropical evergreen tree that bears such fruits.
  3. A taste or flavour/flavor of lemons.
  4. A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
    Lemon colour:   
    Lemon colour:   
  5. (slang) A defective or inadequate item.
    He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.
  6. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) favour, favor.
    A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon, I could get it for half that.
  7. (fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.

Synonyms

  • (defective item): bomb

Derived terms

terms derived from lemon

Related terms

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Adjective

Lemon (comparative more Lemon, superlative most Lemon)

  1. Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
  2. Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.

Verbs for Lemon

bear—s; box—s; crate—s; cultivate—; ex¬press from—; extract from—; flavor with —; gather—s; harvest—s; pack—s; peel—; pickle in—; pierce—; scent with—; ship—s; sort—s; squeeze—; wrap—; —clings; — puckers; —ripens.

Thesaurus

acid, acidulant, aureate, auric, beige, bomb, bread-and-butter pickle, buff, buff-yellow, bust, canary, canary-yellow, chokecherry, citron, citron-yellow, crab apple, cream, creamy, dill pickle, dud, dull thud, ecru, fallow, fizzle, flat failure, flaxen, flop, floperoo, frost, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, green apple, lemon-yellow, lime, loser, luteolous, lutescent, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, pickle, primrose, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, sand-colored, sandy, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sourdough, straw, straw-colored, total loss, turkey, verjuice, vinegar, washout, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish, yogurt

Etymology

From Old French limon (“citrus”), from Arabic ليمون (laymūn) or Persian لیمون (limun). Cognate with Sanskrit निम्ब (nimbū, “lime”).

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

citrus fruit
tree
defective item
colour/color
taste
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Adjective

having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons
having the colour/color of lemons

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Esperanto

Noun

lemon

  1. accusative singular of lemo


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