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Yemenite citron

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “distinct variety”. Today it says “variety of citron”.
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Yemenite Jew at the Western Wall with a large Yemenite etrog The Yemenite citron ( Hebrew : אֶתְרוֹג תֵּימָנִי , etrog teimani ) is a variety of citron , usually containing no juice vesicles in its fruit's segments . The bearing tree and the mature fruit's size are somewhat larger than the trees and fruit of other varieties of citron. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “distinct variety”. Today it says “variety of citron”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

distinct variety

Now

variety of citron

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