1. a yellow, oval citrus fruit with thick skin and fragrant, acidic juice: "the juice of seven lemons"
▪ a drink made from or flavored with lemon juice: "a port and lemon"
2. the evergreen citrus tree that produces the lemon, widely cultivated in warm climates.
3. a pale yellow color: "a lemon T-shirt"
4. a person or thing, especially an automobile, regarded as unsatisfactory, disappointing, or feeble:informal"car-makers cannot afford to create lemons"
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French limon (in modern French denoting a lime) from Arabic līmūn (a collective term for fruits of this kind); compare with lime2.
