n, often attrib  1  cap  :  a genus of often thorny trees and shrubs of the rue family (Rutaceae) grown in warm regions for their edible fruit (as the orange, lemon, lime, kumquat, mandarin, or shaddock) with firm usu. thick and pulpy flesh  2  pl  citruses  or  citrus  :  any plant or fruit of the genus Citrus .
 
 
 
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