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# lemony

«lemony» in Mova's school dictionary: **tasting or smelling of lemon, or being the pale yellow…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (lemony)

### meaning for a pupil

Lemony means tasting or smelling of lemon, or being the pale yellow colour of a lemon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lemony/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Food and cooking: «a lemony cake», «lemony smell». Art and description: «lemony yellow». It tells the reader about taste, smell or colour.

### examples

- The cake had a lemony taste. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lemony/#x1)
- The kitchen smelled lemony after cleaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lemony/#x2)
- She painted the walls a lemony yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lemony/#x3)
- This tea is fresh and lemony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lemony/#x4)
- The fish came with a lemony sauce. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lemony/#x5)
- The lemony sweets made my mouth pucker. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lemony/#x6)

### note

Informal adjective. Also spelled «lemoney» (rare). No comparative needed usually.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lemony» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lemony/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.