Citrus trees lose some of the developing fruits to prevent the tree from being weighed down by an excessive amount of ripening fruit. Unless your citrus tree has another problem and you are losing fruit in May, June or July, the cause is likely natural and unavoidable.
Noun. 1. noun-a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action. content word, open-class word-a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned. substantive-any word or group of words functioning as a noun.
Most of us learned the classic definition of noun back in elementary school, where we were told simply that âa noun is the name of a person, place, or thing.â That's not a bad beginning; it even clues us in to the origin of the word, since noun is derived ultimately from the Latin word nÅmen, which means ânameâ. As we see from its dictionary definition, a noun can name not only a physical thing but also abstract things such as a state (happiness) or a quality (beauty). The word is defined further in terms of the way it functions in the languageâas a subject or object in a sentence or as the object of a preposition.