- Kaffir lime
- noun Date: 1978 a citrus tree (Citrus hystrix) of southeastern Asia having aromatic leaves and roundish thick-rinded green fruits used especially in Thai cooking; also its leaves or fruit
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
Kaffir lime
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