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The origin of the word lemon may be Middle Eastern. [7] The word draws from the Old French limon, then Italian limone, from the Arabic ليمون laymūn or līmūn, and from the Persian لیمو līmūn, a generic term for citrus fruit, which is a cognate of Sanskrit (nimbū, 'lime'). [8]
The Arabic word came from Persian. [18] The lemon tree's native origin appears to be in India. [16] [19] lime (fruit) ليم līm [liːm] (listen ⓘ), meaning sometimes any citrus fruit, [17] sometimes lemon and lime fruit, and sometimes a lime fruit. [20] In Arabic līm was a back-formation from līmūn; see lemon.
A source of confusion is that 'citron' in French and English are false friends, as the French word 'citron' refers to what in English is a lemon; whereas the French word for the citron is 'cédrat'. Indeed, into the 16th century, the English term citron included the lemon and perhaps the lime as well.
The concept of describing a highly flawed item as a "lemon" predates its use in describing cars and can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century as a British and American slang term. "To hand someone a lemon" in British slang dated 1906 was "to pass off a sub-standard article as a good one"; in 1909, American English slang use of ...
A genomic, phylogenic, and biogeographical analysis by Wu et al. (2018) has shown that the center of origin of the genus Citrus is likely the southeast foothills of the Himalayas, in a region stretching from eastern Assam, northern Myanmar, to western Yunnan. It diverged from a common ancestor with Poncirus trifoliata.
The fruit and flower of a Persian lime (Citrus × latifolia) Makrut lime fruit. A lime is a citrus fruit, which is typically round, lime green in colour, 3–6 centimetres (1.2–2.4 in) in diameter, and contains acidic juice vesicles.
Don Lemon can't help but attract controversy. The CNN Tonight host waded into the debate about President Obama's recent use of the n-word on Marc Maron's WTF podcast by holding up a sign with the ...
A glass of the modern lemon posset dessert, served with almond bread. A posset (/ ˈ p ɒ s ə t /, also historically spelled poshote, poshotte, poosay) was originally a popular British hot drink made of milk curdled with wine or ale, often spiced, [1] which was often used as a remedy.