lemon

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an oval fruit that has a thick, yellow skin and sour juice, or the small tree on which this fruit grows:

For this recipe you need the juice of two lemons.

Would you like a slice of lemon in your tea?

lemon juice

a lemon grove (= group of lemon trees)

the juice of a lemon or a drink made from this juice

a pale yellow colour

something that does not work:

Only one of his inventions turned out to be a lemon.

a very silly person:

I felt such a lemon when I discovered I'd missed my appointment.

of a pale yellow colour

a yellow, oval fruit whose juice has a sour taste

infml A lemon is a device or machine that does not work well:

[ C ] That car I bought is a real lemon.