lemon
/ˈlɛmən/ noun A2- A yellowish citrus fruit.
- A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
- A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
- A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
- A defective or inadequate item or individual. · He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.
- Favor. · A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.
- A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
- The surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle less than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc’s two endpoints.
Plural lemons
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Every shade of colour they were—straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.
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