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mbling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.

ner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.

To flower; to blossom; to bloom. How blows the citron grove. Milton.

Properly the citron, a variety of Citrus medica, with large fruits, not acid, and having a high perfume.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid. Citric acid (Chem.), an organic acid, C3H4OH.(CO2H)3, extracted from lemons, currants, gooseberies, etc., as a white crystalline substance, having a pleasant sour taste.

Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow. Citrine ointment (Med.), a yellowish mercurial ointment, the unquentum hydrargyri nitratis.

A genus of trees including the orange, lemon, citron, etc., originally natives of southern Asia.

A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron.

The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.

A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.