citron de mer

/\si.tʁɔ̃ də mɛʁ\/ noun

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Language

French

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citron de mer is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom vernaculaire de Doris pseudoargus, espèce de mollusque marin de la famille des Dorididae originaire de l’Atlantique Nord-Est et de la Méditerranée. Pronounced \si.tʁɔ̃ də mɛʁ\.

Key facts for citron de mer
PropertyValue
Headwordcitron de mer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\si.tʁɔ̃ də mɛʁ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

citron de mer is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for citron de mer is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \si.tʁɔ̃ də mɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for citron de mer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is citron de mer, spelled C-I-T-R-O-N- -D-E- -M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom vernaculaire de Doris pseudoargus, espèce de mollusque marin de la famille des Dorididae originaire de l’Atlantique Nord-Est et de la Méditerranée.
  2. 2
    Nom vernaculaire de Ximenia americana, arbuste de la famille des Ximeniaceae, originaire des zones inter tropicales du globe.
  3. 3
    Fruit comestible de cet arbre, dont le noyau contient une amande oléagineuse mais toxique.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "citron de mer"?
"citron de mer" is spelled C-I-T-R-O-N- -D-E- -M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \si.tʁɔ̃ də mɛʁ\.
What does "citron de mer" mean?
As a noun, "citron de mer" means: Nom vernaculaire de Doris pseudoargus, espèce de mollusque marin de la famille des Dorididae originaire de l’Atlantique Nord-Est et de la Méditerranée.
How do you pronounce "citron de mer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "citron de mer" is \si.tʁɔ̃ də mɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "citron de mer" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.