limon

L1I1M3O1N1

proper noun

A surname from Spanish.

OriginSpanish Limón →
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Meanings

limon1

nounlimon (countable and uncountable, plural limons)

plural limons

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete 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.

    1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets., London: […] B. Tooke […], page 18

Limon2

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.”

    2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN

Origin

  1. SpanishLimón
  2. EnglishLimon

Borrowed from Spanish Limón. Doublet of Lemon.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

MolinMilon
Cite this entry
APA

limon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limon

MLA

“limon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limon. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “limon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limon.

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