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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The miraculous orange was renamed the Washington navel orange.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
Ingredients 2 large navel oranges 14 cups tap water
12 large Honeycrisp and Gala apples (10 oz.
—Liv Dansky, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2024
In 1902, as California thought to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the blessing of the navel orange, as 8,000 railroad cars of oranges were sent to market each year, Luther Tibbets was living in a Riverside poorhouse.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
Now is the time that navel oranges and their varieties — Robertson and Cara Cara prominent among them — begin to ripen and will do so over the next four months.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
Ingredients 2 large navel oranges 14 cups tap water
12 large Honeycrisp and Gala apples (10 oz.
—Liv Dansky, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2024
In 1902, as California thought to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the blessing of the navel orange, as 8,000 railroad cars of oranges were sent to market each year, Luther Tibbets was living in a Riverside poorhouse.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
Now is the time that navel oranges and their varieties — Robertson and Cara Cara prominent among them — begin to ripen and will do so over the next four months.
—Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2024
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“Navel orange.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/navel%20orange. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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