lemon
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, usually)A yellowish citrus fruit.
- 2.
(countable, usually)A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
- 3.
(countable, usually)A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
- 4.
(rare, uncountable, usually)Lemon juice.
- 5.
(countable, usually)A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
- 6.
(countable, slang, usually)A defective or inadequate item or individual.
He didn’t realise until he’d paid for it that the car was a lemon.
- 7.
(Cockney, countable, slang, usually)(Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor.
A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.
- 8.
(countable, dated, slang, usually)(dated, fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
- 9.
(countable, usually)(geometry) 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.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
- 2.
Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
- 3.
(Cockney, slang)(Cockney rhyming slang, from "lemon tart") Smart; cheeky, vocal.
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verb- 1.
(transitive)To flavour with lemon.
You can start the vegetables cooking while you are lemoning the fish.
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Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (citrus), from Arabic لَيْمُون or لِیمُون, a variant of لِیمُو, from Sanskrit निम्बू (lime), ultimately from *limaw or lime. lime.