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Otaheite orange

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A house plant that is possibly a hybrid between a lemon and a mandarin orange, resembling a miniature orange tree and having insipid yellow-orange fruit.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Otaheite, (Tahiti).]

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