Name
The English word "lime" was derived, via Spanish then French, from the Arabic word ليمة līma (Persian لیمو limu). "Key" would seem to have been added some time after the Persian lime cultivar gained commercial prominence in the United States following the 1926 Miami hurricane, which destroyed the bulk of US C. aurantifolia agriculture, leaving it to grow mostly casually in the Florida Keys.
In Malay, it is known as limau nipis, literally, “thin lime”. In Indonesia, it is known as jeruk nipis.
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