marmalade : Idioms & Phrases

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marmalade box

  • noun tree of the West Indies and northern South America bearing succulent edible orange-sized fruit
    genipap fruit; Genipa Americana; jagua.
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marmalade bush

  • noun evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant
    fire-bush; Streptosolen jamesonii; fire bush.
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marmalade orange

  • noun any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
    sour orange; bitter orange tree; bigarade; bitter orange; Seville orange; Citrus aurantium.
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marmalade plum

  • noun brown oval fruit flesh makes excellent sherbet
    sapote; mammee.
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Marmalade tree

  • noun tropical American tree having wood like mahogany and sweet edible egg-shaped fruit; in some classifications placed in the genus Calocarpum
    sapote; Pouteria zapota; Calocarpum zapota; mammee.
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  • (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a single large seed. The fruit is called marmalade, or natural marmalade, from its consistency and flavor.
Webster 1913

orange marmalade

  • noun marmalade made from oranges
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