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limon¹

noun limons

  1. countable, obsolete, uncountable Obsolete spelling of lemon Clary, Horminum, when tender not to be rejected, and in Omlets, made up with Cream, fried in ſweet Butter, and eaten with Sugar, Juice of Orange, or Limon.

Limon²

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Limón. Doublet of Lemon.

proper noun

  1. A surname from Spanish.
  2. A town in Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.
  3. A province of Costa Rica. The discovery “changes also the story about this region,” she said, adding that it proves Afro-Costa Ricans were in the province of Limon “a hundred years before it was registered in official history.”

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@misc{limon_2026,
  title = {limon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/limon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}