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  • From: Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] citron
  • Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:00:31 -0500

A 21:27 05.12.28 EST, vous avez écrit :
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Citron is a melon, It looks like a watermelon and is "candied" and used in fruitcakes, mincemeat and cookies.


Ed Mashburn

In French, "un citron" is "a lemon" - surely a citrus fruit.
This makes it a bit confusing... lemon, melon, same letters, different fruits.
Claude, Quebec.



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