Word.ws English Dictionary

citruses

citruses is the plural of citrus.

Meaning of citrus

Noun

citrus (plural citruses or citrus or (formal) citri or (rare) citrusses)

  1. Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae.
  2. The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin (called zest), an inner white skin (called pith or albedo), and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.

See all 4 meanings of citrus

Questions about citruses

What is citruses the plural of?
Citruses is the plural of citrus.

Words near citruses in the dictionary

  1. citrus greening
  2. citrus greening disease
  3. Citrus Heights
  4. Citrus Springs
  5. citrus vein phloem degeneration
  6. citruses
  7. citrusin
  8. citrusinine
  9. citrusins
  10. citruslike
  11. citrusses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: citruses (page history and authors); citrus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-citruses.wav.

Cite this entry: “citruses.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/citruses. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.