Lemon or lemon means the yellow citrus fruit--
This is too sweet; maybe we should add some lemon juice.
"Lemon tree, very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet..."
Lemon may also mean a car or machine that doesn't work, even when new--
This car has been in the shop more than it's been on the road; it's a lemon.
Leman or leman ( usually pronounced to rhyme with lemon ) means a sweetheart or mistress--
The troubadour wrote a sonnet in honor of his leman.
Each knight offered a toast to his leman, around the table in turn.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"He wrote a poem to his leman, comparing her sour looks to a lemon."
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