navel orange

noun

1. a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.

navel orange

noun

1. a sweet orange that is usually seedless and has at its apex a navel-like depression enclosing an underdeveloped secondary fruit

Word History and Origins

Origin of navel orange¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

He approached a navel orange tree with some scorched branches.

From Los Angeles Times

The miraculous orange was renamed the Washington navel orange.

From Los Angeles Times

But here along the coast, lemons and satsumas come in during the fall, so I bake these cookies using satsumas instead of navel oranges once the satsumas are ready to pick.

From Salon

After a cold spell decimated Riverside’s navel orange crop in 1913, the residents of Pachappa Camp left to look for work in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times

He’d already been through four months of chemotherapy, and now Dr. John Waldhausen, a surgeon specializing in neuroblastoma cases, was going to remove a tumor the size of a navel orange from his abdomen.

From Seattle Times