bigarade

A noun referring to any of various common orange trees that yield sour or bitter fruit, often used as grafting stock.

• 🇪🇸Sustantivo que designa variedades de naranjo que producen frutos ácidos o amargos, utilizados a menudo como portainjerto para injertos.

1. Sour orange tree C2 formal

   A type of citrus tree that produces sour or bitter fruit, often used as grafting stock for other orange varieties.

   • The bigarade tree is commonly used as rootstock for sweet orange trees.
   • Farmers graft sweet orange branches onto bigarade rootstock for better disease resistance.
   • The fruit of the bigarade is too bitter to eat raw but is used in marmalades.

   🇪🇸Naranjo amargo

   Sinónimos: bitter orangeseville orangesour orange