lemon

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English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English lymon, from Old French lymon (“citrus”), from Arabic لَيْمُون (laymūn) or Persian لیمون (limon), from Persian لیمو (limu), from Sanskrit निम्बू (nimbū, “lime”), ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *limaw or Munda. Likely doublet of lime.

The fandom sense is named after the erotic anime series Cream Lemon.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lĕm'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈlɛm.ən/
• Rhymes: -ɛmən
• (US)
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /ˈlɪm.ɪn/

Noun

lemon (countable and uncountable, plural lemons)

2. A yellowish citrus fruit.
3. A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
4. A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.

5. (uncountable, rare) Lemon juice.
6. A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
7. (slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual.
8. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor.

9. (dated, fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
11. (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.

    Coordinate term: apple

Alternative forms

• limon (obsolete)

Synonyms

• (defective item): bomb
• (erotic fanfiction): PWP, smutfic
• (color): lemon yellow

Hypernyms

• fruit
  • citrus

Derived terms

Related terms

• limonene

Descendants

• → Kashubian: lemòna (Canada, United States)

Translations

See also

• 🍋
• adverse selection

Adjective

lemon (comparative more lemon, superlative most lemon)

1. Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
2. Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang, from "lemon tart") Smart; cheeky, vocal.

Translations

Verb

lemon (third-person singular simple present lemons, present participle lemoning, simple past and past participle lemoned)

1. (transitive) To flavour with lemon.

See also

• citrine
• citron
• citronella
• melissa
• fever grass
• Appendix:Colors

References

Anagrams

• Menlo, Monel, melon, nmole

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlemon/
• Rhymes: -emon
• Hyphenation: lem‧on

Noun

lemon

1. accusative singular of lemo

Welsh

Alternative forms

• lemwn

Etymology

From English lemon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛmɔn/

Noun

lemon m (plural lemonau, not mutable)

1. lemon

Related terms

• lemonêd (“lemonade”)

Western Huasteca Nahuatl

Noun

lemon

1. lemon.