a. [f. L. citre-us + -AN.]
1. Of or pertaining to the citrus-tree (CITRUS 2); made of citrus-wood.
1616–61. Holyday, Persius, Sat. I. 295. Whatsoe’re on citrean beds is writ.
1833. Landor, Wks. (1853), II. 246. The Romans will repose at citrean tables for ages.
1834. Lytton, Pompeii, I. iii. Round the table of citrean wood.
† 2. ‘Which hath the colour of a Citron, yellow-colour, of or belonging to a Citron’ (Blount, Glossogr., 1656). Obs.
