navel orange

noun

: a seedless orange having a pit at the apex where the fruit encloses a small secondary fruit

called also navel

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Special at the Red Owl Store 50 years ago: navel oranges, 35-cents a dozen; Post Toasties, 12-cents a box; Dove soap, 23-cents; celery, 20-cents; Jeurgen’s Toilet Soap, 4 bars for 19-cents; a ring of bologna, 25-cents a pound. —

Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 Clonal propagation of navel oranges courtesy of buds from that tree led to a booming orange industry that made a significant contribution to the prosperity of this state in its early years. —

Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2025 While the outer rind may seem like a regular navel orange, the inside is anything but! —

Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025 Some research suggests navel oranges may have even more vitamin C content than blood oranges. —

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