navel orange

noun

: a seedless orange having a pit at the apex where the fruit encloses a small secondary fruit

called also navel

Examples of navel orange in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The miraculous orange was renamed the Washington navel orange. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024 Ingredients 2 large navel oranges 14 cups tap water 12 large Honeycrisp and Gala apples (10 oz. Liv Dansky, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2024 In 1902, as California thought to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the blessing of the navel orange, as 8,000 railroad cars of oranges were sent to market each year, Luther Tibbets was living in a Riverside poorhouse. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024 Now is the time that navel oranges and their varieties — Robertson and Cara Cara prominent among them — begin to ripen and will do so over the next four months. Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for navel orange 

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Word History

First Known Use

1856, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of navel orange was in 1856

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“Navel orange.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/navel%20orange. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

navel orange

noun
: a usually seedless orange that contains a small or partial second fruit at one end resembling a navel
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