One of the rare English words borrowed from Cantonese — naming a fruit by its resemblance to a reed and an orange.
A small evergreen tree of the rose family native to East Asia, bearing clusters of yellow, pear-shaped edible fruit.
From Cantonese lou4 gwat1, meaning reed orange, describing the fruit by analogy with citrus Key roots: 蘆橘 (lou4 gwat1) (Cantonese: "reed orange").