trifoliate orange

noun

1. a spiny, Chinese orange tree, Poncirus trifoliata, used as a stock in grafting and for hedges.

Example Sentences

A naval orange grafted on the wild orange stock might be raggy, not full of juice; while when grafted on the trifoliate orange stock might be heavy and full of juice.

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Incidentally we may examine here a trifoliate orange filled with fruit.

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Some day we may have good trifoliate orange hybrids in Connecticut if the Buckley hickory, Stuart pecan, Arizona walnut and imbricated pine grow here.

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