lemon : Idioms & Phrases

• noun tart lemon-flavored carbonated drink
  

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• noun bushy perennial Old World mint having small white or yellowish flowers and fragrant lemon-flavored leaves; a garden escapee in northern Europe and North America
  sweet balm; bee balm; garden balm; Melissa officinalis; beebalm.
  
• noun lemony leaves used for a tisane or in soups or fruit punches
  

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• noun clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with lemon juice and parsley
  Meuniere butter.
  

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• noun a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar
  lemon cheese.
  

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• noun a conserve with a thick consistency; made with lemons and butter and eggs and sugar
  lemon cheese.
  

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• noun a hard candy with lemon flavor and a yellow color and (usually) the shape of a lemon
  

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• noun a flavoring made from (or imitating) lemons
  

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• noun a common garden geranium with lemon-scented foliage
  Pelargonium limoneum.
  

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• noun an aromatic oil that smells like lemon and is widely used in Asian cooking and in perfumes and medicines
  lemongrass oil; lemongrass.
  
• noun a tropical grass native to India and Sri Lanka
  lemongrass.
  

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• (Bot.), a fragrant East Indian grass (Andropogon Shoenanthus, and perhaps other allied species), which yields the grass oil used in perfumery.

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• noun a grove of lemon trees
  

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• noun usually freshly squeezed juice of lemons
  

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• noun a day lily with yellow flowers
  Hemerocallis lilio-asphodelus; Hemerocallis flava.
  

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• noun pie containing lemon custard and topped with meringue
  

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• noun an annual horsemint of central and western United States and northern Mexico
  Monarda citriodora; horsemint.
  
• noun mint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange
  Mentha citrata; eau de cologne mint; bergamot mint.
  

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• noun fragrant yellow oil obtained from the lemon peel
  

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• noun the rind of a lemon
  lemon peel.
  
• noun strips of lemon peel cooked in sugar and coated with sugar
  

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• noun the rind of a lemon
  lemon peel.
  

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• noun common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous
  Negaprion brevirostris.
  

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• noun flesh of American flounder; important in the winter
  winter flounder.
  
• noun highly valued almost pure white flesh
  English sole.
  
• noun popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
  English sole; Parophrys vitulus.
  
• noun small European sole
  Solea lascaris.
  
• noun European flatfish highly valued as food
  Microstomus kitt.
  
• noun important American food fish in the winter
  winter flounder; blackback flounder; Pseudopleuronectes americanus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a yellow European sole (Solea aurantiaca).

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• noun sweet-scented sumac of eastern America having ternate leaves and yellowish-green flowers in spikes resembling catkins followed by red hairy fruits
  Rhus aromatica; fragrant sumac.
  

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• noun a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit
  Citrus limon; lemon.
  

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• noun a strong yellow color
  maize; gamboge; lemon.
  

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• noun tiny bits of lemon peel
  

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• adjective satellite smelling of lemons
  

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• noun similar to but smaller than the spotted gum and having lemon-scented leaves
  Eucalyptus citriodora; Eucalyptus maculata citriodora.
  

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• noun South African evergreen having hard tough wood
  Psychotria capensis; lemon-wood; lemonwood tree; lemonwood.
  

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• noun South African evergreen having hard tough wood
  Psychotria capensis; lemon-wood; lemonwood tree; lemonwood.
  

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• noun annual of southern United States
  Monarda pectinata.
  

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• . (Chem.) See Salt of sorrel, below.

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• (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, inappropriately named, as it consists of an acid potassium oxalate and contains no citric acid, which is the characteristic acid of lemon; called also salis of sorrel. It is used in removing ink stains. See Oxalic acid, under Oxalic. Colloq.

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Sea" lem"on

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1. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of nudibranchiate mollusks of the genus Doris and allied genera, having a smooth, thick, convex yellow body.

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• noun lemon tree having fruit with a somewhat insipid sweetish pulp
  Citrus limetta; sweet lime.
  

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• noun the edible yellow fruit of the Jamaica honeysuckle
  bell apple; sweet cup; yellow granadilla.
  

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Wa"ter lem"on

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1. (Bot.) The edible fruit of two species of passion flower (Passiflora laurifolia, and P. maliformis); -- so called in the West Indies.

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• noun tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
  Passiflora foetida; running pop; love-in-a-mist.
  

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