citrus

From Latin citrus (“citron tree, thuja”), probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.tɹəs/

citrus (plural citruses)

1. Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae.
2. The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.

• Citrus County
• citrus fruit

citrus (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to citrus plants or fruit.

• Curtis, rictus, rustic

Probably via Etruscan from Ancient Greek κέδρος (kédros).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.trus/, [ˈkɪ.trʊs]

citrus f (genitive citrī); second declension

1. citron tree
2. thuja

Second declension.

• Translingual: Citrus

• citrus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• citrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)