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Trifoliata

noun

Small fast-growing spiny deciduous Chinese orange tree bearing sweetly scented flowers and decorative but inedible fruit: used as a stock in grafting and for hedges. Synonyms: Poncirus trifoliata, trifoliate orange, wild orange.

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"Trifoliata" Quotes from Famous Books

... Scotch fir. Pinus abies, spruce fir. Taxus baccata, yew. Nuphar luteum, yellow water-lily. Ceratophyllum demersum, hornwort. Potamogeton, pondweed. Prunus spinosus, common sloe. Menyanthes trifoliata, buckbean. Nymphaea alba, white water-lily. Alnus, alder. ...

— The Antiquity of Man • Charles Lyell

... excess and deficiency, and diseases incident thereto. The sweet stock is a free growing and satisfactory stock and most of the older orchards are upon this root, but it is held to be less resistant of soil troubles than the sour stock, and therefore propagators are now largely using the latter. The trifoliata has been promoted as more likely to induce dormancy of the top growth during cold weather, because of its own deciduous habit. It has also been advocated as likely to induce earlier maturity in the fruit and thus minister to early marketing. The objection urged against ...

— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson

Words linked to "Trifoliata" : Poncirus, tree, Poncirus trifoliata, genus Poncirus, wild orange