Lime-fruit

  • 41lime — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English līm; akin to Old High German līm birdlime, Latin limus mud, slime, and perhaps to Latin linere to smear Date: before 12th century 1. birdlime 2. a. a caustic highly infusible solid that consists …

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  • 42Fruit Brute — Les Fruit Brute sont une variété de céréales de petit déjeuner à haut taux de sucre. Elles sont fabriquées par General Mills et sont constituées de céréales givrées à saveur de fruits et de guimauves à la lime. La mascotte de la céréale, un loup… …

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  • 43lime — Citron Cit ron (s[i^]t r[u^]n), n. [F. citron, LL. citro, fr. L. citrus citron tree (cf. citreum, sc. malum, a citron), from Gr. ki tron citron] 1. (Bot) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic; it is produced by the… …

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  • 44lime — lime1 [laım] n [Sense: 1,4; Date: 1600 1700; : French; Origin: Provençal limo, from Arabic lim] [Sense: 2; Origin: Old English lind] [Sense: 3; Origin: Old English lim] 1.) a small juicy gr …

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  • 45lime — laɪm n. calcium oxide, white alkaline substance obtained by heating calcium carbonate at high temperatures (used in building and agriculture); quicklime; small green citrus fruit with juicy sour pulp v. cover with lime, coat with a mixture of… …

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  • 46lime —   1. Fruit. Lemi.   2. Calcium oxide. Puna.    ♦ Lime hair bleach, pūkai.    ♦ To burn lime in a pit, kahu.   3. See birdlime …

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  • 47fruit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. product, yield, harvest; offspring, result, consequence, outgrowth. See production, effect. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The edible growth of a plant] Syn. fruitage, berry, drupe, grain, nut, root, tuber,… …

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  • 48lime — 1 noun 1 (C) a small juicy green fruit with a sour taste, or the tree this grows on 2 (C) a tree with pleasant smelling yellow flowers; linden 3 (U) a white substance obtained by burning limestone, used for making cement, marking sports fields… …

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  • 49lime anthracnose — noun : a blighting and fruit spotting disease of the lime in the West Indies caused by a fungus (Colletotrichum gloeosporioides) …

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  • 50lime oil — noun : either of two essential oils obtained from limes and used chiefly as flavoring materials: a. : an oil obtained by steam distillation of the juice of the crushed fruit b. : a yellow oil resembling lemon oil and obtained by expression of the …

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