navel orange

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Noun

navel orange (plural navel oranges)

  1. A type of orange in which the fruit encloses a small secondary fruit, the rind showing on the exterior a navel-like pit or depression at the apex, grown on trees descended by cutting and grafting from a single tree.
    Synonym: navel

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