lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: limes
Etymology: From French lime, from Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة (līma), from Persian لیمو (limu). Doublet of lemon.
Senses: glosses: Any of several green citrus fruit, somewhat smaller and sharper-tasting than a lemon.
glosses: Any of the trees that bear limes, especially Key lime, Citrus aurantiifolia.
synonyms: lime green#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous, precisely hyponymous>
glosses: Any of several brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colours associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
synonyms: lime green#Noun[Appendix:Glossary#broadly|broadly]] synonymous, precisely hyponymous>
glosses: Any of several brilliant, sometimes yellowish, green colours associated with the fruits of a lime tree.
A particular one of those colours that has been standardized under this name, at least in some organizations' standards.
examples: text: WARNING: This is a lime. While it does not show explicit sex, as a lemon would, references to sexual situations abound.
ref: 1998 June 8, Gary Kleppe, “[Ranma][Fanfic] Tangled Web”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):
text: Even with all the sex in Garden of EVA, I still think the main stories are better for just being the lemon-scented limes that they are.
ref: 1998 December 29, jiml...@earthlink.net, “[EVA][FanFic][Lemon] Garden of EVA 0:6x - Wet Dreams Bite!”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):
text: I have no intention of writing any lemon scenes, limes are possibilities but unlikely and if they occur they will be few in number.
ref: 2001 November 27, Schemer, “[Ranma/SF][FanFic] A Learning Experience - Chapter 01”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: A fan fiction story which contains sexual references, but stops short of full, explicit descriptions of sexual activity (coined by analogy with lemon).
Hypernyms: citrus
fruit
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus glauca
word: Australian desert-lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus australasica
word: Australian finger-lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus glauca
alt: C. australasica, C. australis
word: Australian lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: blood lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus australasica
word: caviar lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus glauca
word: desert lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus australasica
word: finger lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: Indian sweet lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus hystrix
word: kaffir lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
alt: Citrus × aurantifolia
word: Key lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: Key lime pie
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lemon and lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lemonime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lemon-lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lemon lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: limeade
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lime-aise
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lime butterfly
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lime disease
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lime-green
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lime green
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lime juice
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lime-juicer
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus × floridana
word: limequat
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lime rickey
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: limerita
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: limetini
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: limey
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: lime yellow
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: makrut lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus limonia
word: Mandarin lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus × microcarpa
alt: syn. ×Citrofortunella mitis
word: musk lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: Palestinian sweet lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus × latifolia
word: Persian lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus limonia
word: Rangpur lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Melicoccus bijugatus
word: Spanish lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus limettioides
word: sweet lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
word: Sylhet lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus latifolia
word: Tahiti lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Citrus hystrix
word: Thai lime
sense: terms derived from lime ("Citrus")
taxonomic: Zanthoxylum fagara
word: wild lime (Adelia ricinella,
Related terms: sense: terms of interest for lime (noun) fruit and color
word: fur up
sense: terms of interest for lime (noun) fruit and color
word: gimlet
sense: terms of interest for lime (noun) fruit and color
word: lemon
sense: terms of interest for lime (noun) fruit and color
word: plaster
sense: terms of interest for lime (noun) fruit and color
word: sour