Meyer lemon
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- noun
- /ˈmaɪər ˈlɛmən/
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- Our backyard is filled with citrus, including a robust Meyer lemon tree that produces fruit year-round.
- Meyer lemon juice
- Meyer lemon zest
- Meyer lemon tree
Examples
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I made a delicious salad dressing using the juice of a fresh Meyer lemon.
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The Meyer lemon is bent over with fruit.
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Meyer lemons are sweeter and less acidic than regular lemons, making them perfect for desserts.
Synonyms
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A yellow oval citrus fruit with juicy sour flesh
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A small evergreen tree that grows yellow sour fruit used in cooking
A lemon tree and its fruit that have a mild, sweet taste and can be eaten fresh
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Morphology
Meyer + lemon
The structure Proper-name + noun signals a named variety, so a learner who knows 'lemon' will reasonably infer that 'Meyer lemon' denotes a type/variety of lemon. Although the specific attributes (sweeter, thinner-skinned) are not predictable from the parts, the core meaning 'a kind of lemon' is transparently derived from the constituents.
Etymology
Meyer lemon gets its name from a man called Frank Meyer who brought this sweeter, rounder lemon from China to the United States long ago. People began to call the fruit by his name, so today Meyer lemon means that small, 'sweet' lemon or the tree that grows it.