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navel orange

A sweet orange that is usually seedless and has at its apex a navellike formation enclosing a small secondary fruit.

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navel orange

(Cookery) a sweet orange that is usually seedless and has at its apex a navel-like depression enclosing an underdeveloped secondary fruit

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na′vel or`ange

a seedless variety of orange having at the apex a navellike formation containing a small secondary fruit.

[1885–90]

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navel orange - seedless orange enclosing a small secondary fruit at the apex

sweet orange - orange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skin

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Before long, 20,000 acres of the sweet navel oranges were growing in the Riverside area, thriving in the well-drained decomposed granite soil, cool but frost-free winters, and - typical of the region - imported water, in this case low-saline artesian water carried by the historic Gage Canal from the San Bernardino Mountains.

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