Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small evergreen citrus tree (×Citrofortunella mitis), widely cultivated as a houseplant for its glossy foliage and ornamental fruits.
- n. The sour fruit of this plant, resembling a small tangerine and sometimes used as a flavoring or for beverages, sauces, or marmalades.
Wiktionary
- n. A small decorative evergreen citrus tree, of the species Citrofortunella mitis, sometimes cultivated for its fruit.
- n. The fruit of this tree.
Etymologies
- Tagalog kalamunding. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“similar to the tangerine"; kalamansi, meanwhile, also known as calamondin orange, is a naturally-occurring hybrid between a type of tangerine and a type of kumquat.”
“Also in its startling repertoire are foraged wild mushrooms, a beefsteak tomato carved tableside, fiddlehead ferns, acid-tinged calamondin oranges today called calamansi, and those now ubiquitous but then obscure cherry tomatoes and snow peas.”
The Huffington Post: Rozanne Gold: Joe Baum's Nasturtiums: A Tribute
“The calamondin or calamansi, also a diminutive citrus, is probably derived in part from the kumquat.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“Here are two varieties of lavender flowers; citrus trees, bearing sour oranges, lemons and calamondin; jasmine vines in bloom, winding up pillars; crepe-myrtle, safflower, rosemary and valerian arrayed in geometric beds.”
“dryly, as Just your everyday mix of sea anemone, raw rabbit brains, oysters, and calamondin”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘calamondin’.
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Pterodactyl's Game of Postal Abbrevia...
Here's a fun little word game that might appeal to my fellow Wordies. The object of this game is to create the longest possible word, using only the official two-letter abbreviations of U.S. states...
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Jams, Jellies, and Preserves
I've thought of a few of the most common sorts. Additions sought.
traffic, door, toe, fish, wildlife, bean, strawberry, apricot, raspberry, blackberry, boysenberry, grape and 51 more...
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Citrus
I thought making a list of citrus fruits would be easy. Turns out citrus trees hybridize easily and most of the hybrids fruits have names, often formed by hybridizing the common names.
orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, tangerine, clementine, ugli, bergamot, pomelo, pummelo, ortanique, citron and 87 more...
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Eating Words
eat, fret, frass, etch, ort, edacious, edible, escarole, esculent, esurient, comedo, comestible and 49 more...
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hybrid fruits and a few beasties too
tangelo, pluot, tomacco, citrofortunella, limequat, ugli fruit, grapefruit, oroblanco, calamondin, orangelo, dekopon, lemanderin and 33 more...
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