Home › Words › P › petitgrainpetitgrain/ˌpə.tiˈɡræ̃/petitgrain means an essential oil that is extracted from the green twigs of the bitter orange plant.petitgrain is pronounced /ˌpə.tiˈɡræ̃/.EtymologyFrom French petitgrain.nounAn essential oil that is extracted from the green twigs of the bitter orange plant.e.g.“Even when preparing less costly synthetic nerolis, French petitgrain is almost invariably employed […]” — 2007, NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers, The Complete Technology Book on Flavours, Fragrances and Perfumes:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bigarade 69% match — The bitter orange (fruit). vs petitgrain →citren 63% match — A fragrant essential oil found in lemon peel. vs petitgrain →neroli 63% match — More fully neroli oil or oil of neroli: an essential oil distilled from the blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange (Citrus × aurantium subsp. amara) used to make perfumes. vs petitgrain →bergamot 58% match — A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. vs petitgrain →cedrat 55% match — The citron tree. vs petitgrain →attar 55% match — An essential oil extracted from flowers. vs petitgrain →bourgeonal 53% match — An aromatic aldehyde with a floral fragrance, used in perfumery. vs petitgrain →bergaptol 53% match — The furanocoumarin 4-hydroxyfuro[3,2-g]chromen-7-one present in the essential oils of citrus fruit vs petitgrain →