ˈorange-tree
The tree which bears oranges.
| 1530 Palsgr. 249/1 Orenge tree, orengier. 1553 Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 8 No more wyll the Orange tree bringe foorth fruit in Englande. 1588 Drake in Four C. Eng. Lett. (1880) 32 He shall wish hymselff at Sainte Marie Porte among his orynge trees. 1756–7 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 375 A covered walk of cedar and orange-trees planted alternately. 1856 Bryant Child's Funeral iv, Currents of fragrance, from the orange tree. 1866 Treas. Bot. 293/1 The Orange tree at the convent of St. Sabina at Rome is thirty-one feet high. |
b. New Zealand orange-tree, a name given to the Tarata, from the aromatic odour of its leaves when crushed (Morris Austral Engl.).