bigarade

• 名词，指酸橙或苦橙（Citrus aurantium）等产酸苦果实的柑橘类植物，其果实常作嫁接砧木，亦指此类果实本身。

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

1. Sour orange treeC2formal

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

   酸橙

   • 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.

   同义词bitter orangeseville orangesour orange