citrusses

English

Noun

citrusses

1. (rare) plural of citrus
   • 1854 May 26, “Royal Horticultural Society”, in The Freeman’s Journal, volume LXXXVII, Dublin, page 4, column 5:

     These comprised azalees calceolarius, citrusses, ericas, and a hundred other rare varieties.

   • 1929 July 26, “It Doesn’t Matter Much, But - -”, in The Hamilton County Republican-Register, volume 1, number 18 […], Aurora, Neb., page 2, column 3:

     Imagine, then, the tailspin done by our alleged brain when we read the doin’s of this here new-fangled farm board an’ found that the farmers was fruit men with the [f?]lies, a few natives of Florida which raises citrusses an’ rents an’ whatever else it is that Florida raises, an’ the cotton men.

   • 1935 December, The Madras Agricultural Journal, volume XXIII, number 12, page 489:

     Dr. Tanaka who has been making systematic studies of the citrusses of the world for the last 25 years is an authority on the subject.

   • 1980 November 6, “The Plant Groom; With Dale: Winter Storage”, in Tyler Morning Telegraph, volume 50, number 359, Tyler, Tex., page 8:

     Also, recycling containers, or bags, that had oranges, lemons, grapefruit, or other citrusses stored in them, that have the grid of about one-fourth inch square on them.

   • 1981 August 27, Waverley Root, “Calamondin Gets Its Day in the Sun”, in Los Angeles Times, part VIII, Los Angeles, Calif., section “Entry to United States”, page 19, column 1:

     (At the beginning of the century, kumquats were classed in the genus Citrus, but it was then decided that they were not quite full-fledged citrusses, so they became fortunellas).

   • 1993, “United Arab Emirates”, in Horticultural Research International: Directory of horticultural research institutes and their activities in 74 countries, 5th edition, Wageningen: International Society for Horticultural Science, →ISBN, page 715:

     Studies on cultivars of mango, guava and some citrusses; extension and training of farmers.

   • 2007, Waruno Mahdi, Malay Words and Malay Things: Lexical Souvenirs from an Exotic Archipelago in German Publications before 1700 (Frankfurter Forschungen zu Südostasien; volume 3), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 136–137 and 287:

     ‘European fruit, such as apples, pears [hazel?]-nuts, and the like one will indeed not find here in India ..... But on the other hand one has other delicious fruit, not seen in Europe either, like pineapples, banana, pumelo, mangos, oranges, Chinese apples [i.e. oranges], lemons, citrusses, water melons, cashews, coconuts and more of the like, all of which being excellently good of taste.’ […] ‘rice, wheat, barley kayang, ginger, sugar, masquinades: multifarious trees [and fruits] (besides) lemons, [citrusses,] oranges, guayavas, pisang, (citrusses, pummel-os, water-)melons, (pumpkins,) pineapples, China root, katjang, aubergines, sweet potatoes, ubes, (warmoes?), cabbage, beet’—words in square brackets are only in the German version, those in parentheses only in the Dutch.