NOUN
- any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
- highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade
How To Use bitter orange In A Sentence
- The bitter oranges must be mighty different from the Sour Orange rootstock used in South Texas .... Lemon Tree - MAIN THREAD
- Fried fish was accompanied by the juice of bitter oranges or lemons or by greensauce.
- There are many different kinds of gliko, for example made with muscat grapes, immature green walnuts, bitter oranges (or any citrus fruits picked when they are still small and green), small unripe figs, and sour or sweet cherries.
- Like grapefruit, bitter orange can boost blood levels of many medications and increase the risk of side effects.
- I also had some sultana raisins and candied zest of bitter oranges from Spain.
- Bitter herbs that would help would be gentian, artichoke, bitter orange, turmeric, wormwood and chamomile.
- Cold-pressing the fruit peel yields bigarade, the essential oil of the bitter orange; distilling the twigs gives you petitgrain; and the orange blossoms provide you with neroli. Orange Blossoms
- At the advent of the New Year's Festival, bitter oranges, rice, and rice-flour cakes, native sardines (iwashi), chikara-iwai ( 'strength-rice-bread'), black peas, dried chestnuts, and a fine lobster, are all tastefully arranged upon the family sambo. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
- The Seville oranges, called naranja agria, or bitter orange, are used to make sauces and marinades, especially in the cooking of the Yucatan, as well as marmalades and liqueurs such as Triple Sec and Curaçao. Winter Sunshine: Mexican Ways with Citrus
- A beautiful town in the foothills of the Alps, it is the centre of the French perfume industry with the countryside filled with roses, jasmine, bitter orange blossom and other flowers from which the perfumes are distilled.