lemon-lime

See also: lemonlime

English

Alternative forms

• lemonlime

Adjective

lemon-lime (not comparable)

1. that contains a mixture of lemons and limes

Noun

lemon-lime (plural lemon-limes)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) a variety of citrus fruit
   • 1858, Robert Hogg, The Vegetable Kingdom and Its Products, page 140:

     The Lemon Lime, or Sweet Lemon, is larger than the preceding, of an oblong roundish shape, with protuberances at the point, which is in some cases also puckered.

   • 1950, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Florida State Horticultural Society:

     Perhaps this is the place to recall the rise and fall of the so-called Perrine lemon, the hybrid lemon-lime which was introduced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture about 1931 in the hope that it might enable Florida to compete directly with California for the lemon trade.

   • 1989, Robert Earle Johannes, Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Collection of Essays‎^[1]:

     "There are many varieties of citrus including sweet and sour oranges, lemons, limes, lemon-limes, calomondin and pomelo."

2. any lemon-lime drink

References

• lemon-lime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “lemon-lime”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.