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Orange tree   /ˈɔrəndʒ tri/   Listen
Orange tree

noun
1.
Any citrus tree bearing oranges.  Synonym: orange.



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"Orange tree" Quotes from Famous Books



... as yet moonless sky. This somewhat startled me, but it might have been one of the servants. Still I got up and looked out, but I could see nothing. It did certainly strike me once or twice, that there was some dark object cowering in the deep gloom caused by the shade of the orange tree at the end of the piazza, but I persuaded myself it was fancy, and once more slipped into my nest. However, the circumstance had put sleep to flight. Half an hour might have passed, and the deep dark purity of the eastern sky was rapidly quickening into a greenish azure, the forerunner of the rising ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... He saw an orange tree in the garden covered with snow. He bade his servant shake it free. A pine tree which stood close by suddenly jerked its branches as if in emulation of its neighbor, and threw off its load of snow like a wave. The gate through which he had to drive out ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various

... record of the inner life of a man of forty years. How many suns, how many rains and dews, to produce a few buds and flowers, some sweet, but not rich fruit! We cannot help demanding of the man of talent that he should be like "the orange tree, that busy plant." But, as Landor says, "He who has any thoughts of any worth can, and probably will, afford to let the greater part ...
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... song that the boy sings gaily In the sunny garden— The love of women is like the little moon, the little happy moon In the last night of Ramadan. The love of women is like the great silence that steals at dusk To kiss the scented blossoms of the orange tree. Sit thee down beneath the orange tree, O loving man! That thou mayst know the kiss that ...
— The Garden Of Allah • Robert Hichens

... particular instance, one species of orange tended to have few and fewer seeds. But finally came an orange tree whose fruit had no seeds at all. That was the origin of the navel orange. And that was a ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand



Words linked to "Orange tree" :   tangor, sour orange, Seville orange, citrus tree, Citrus nobilis, temple orange, genus Citrus, bitter orange tree, bitter orange, Citrus bergamia, temple orange tree, bergamot orange, orangewood, king orange, bergamot, bigarade, citrus, Citrus aurantium, orange, sweet orange, marmalade orange, Citrus sinensis



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