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.
A noun is a part of speech that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea. In this lesson, in addition to learning how to identify nouns, you'll learn the difference between proper and common nouns and a bit about how nouns function in sentences.n our first column, we have general, or common, nouns. In our second column, we have specific, or proper, nouns. Note that typically, the first letter in a common noun isn't capitalized unless that common noun is the first word in a sentence.