citron de mer
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13 characters
Language
French
word origin
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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\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | citron de mer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \si.tʁɔ̃ də mɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Nom vernaculaire de Doris pseudoargus, espèce de mollusque marin de la famille des Dorididae originaire de l’Atlantique Nord-Est et de la Méditerranée.
- 2Nom vernaculaire de Ximenia americana, arbuste de la famille des Ximeniaceae, originaire des zones inter tropicales du globe.
- 3Fruit comestible de cet arbre, dont le noyau contient une amande oléagineuse mais toxique.
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