a shrubby Asian tree which bears large lemon-like fruits, but with less acid flesh and thick fragrant peel 枸橼,香橼
Citrus medica, family Rutaceae; one of the ancestors of modern commercial citrus fruits 拉丁名Citrus medic,芸香科,现代商品柑橘属水果的原宗之一 ■the fruit of this tree 枸橼,香橼(果实)
语源
early 16th cent. (denoting the fruit): from French, from Latin citrus 'citron tree', on the pattern of limon 'lemon'