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grapefruit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
grapefruit \grape"fruit`\ (gr[=a]p"fr[=oo]t`), n.
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A citrus tree ( Citrus paradisi) bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp. [WordNet sense 1]
Syn: Citrus paradisi.
The large yellow fruit of the Citrus paradisi, having somewhat acid juicy pulp. It is a popular breakfast food.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, from grape + fruit. So called because it grows in clusters. The fruit itself was known since 1693 (in Hans Sloane's catalogue of Jamaican plants); presumably it originated there from chance hybrids between other cultivated citrus. It was known by various names before the current one emerged. An ornamental plant chiefly at first, not much eaten until late 19c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The tree of the species (taxlink Citrus paradisi species noshow=1). 2 The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.
WordNet
n. citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp [syn: Citrus paradisi]
large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half
Wikipedia
The grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi) is a subtropical citrus tree known for its sour to semi-sweet fruit. Grapefruit is a hybrid originating in Barbados as an accidental cross between two introduced species, sweet orange (C. sinesis) and pomelo or shaddock (C. maxima), both of which were introduced from Asia in the seventeenth century. When found, it was named the “ forbidden fruit”; and it has also been misidentified with the pomelo.
Grapefruit were a London-based British band of the late 1960s. Their brand of music was a typical late 1960s blend of rock, which they often fused with psychedelic effects such as phasers and vocoders, or classical arrangements.
is the debut studio album of Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto. Production and all music composition was by Yoko Kanno, but she wrote the lyrics for the songs "Migi Hoppe no Nikibi" and "Orange Iro to Yubikiri", and co-wrote a third, "Feel Myself", with Yūho Iwasato.
Grapefruit is an artist's book written by Yoko Ono, originally published in 1964. It has become famous as an early example of conceptual art, containing a series of "event scores" that replace the physical work of art – the traditional stock-in-trade of artists – with instructions that an individual may, or may not, wish to enact.
Grapefruit is a type of citrus fruit.
Grapefruit may also refer to:
- Grapefruit spoon, a spoon with teeth at its edge
- Grapefruit knife, a knife designed for cutting grapefruit
- Grapefruit diet, a type of diet
- Grapefruit (band), a 1960s pop band
- Grapefruit (album), the debut studio album of Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto
- Grapefruit (book), a book by Yoko Ono
- Grapefruit (music label), an American record label based in Brooklyn, USA.
Grapefruit is an independent record label and distributor. It began in 2011 as a subscription record club, launching the first series with an album by American band Lambchop, which was a collection of juvenilia by Kurt Wagner, titled Turd Goes Back: Essential Tracks From Secret Sourpuss & Hot Tussy.
Usage examples of "grapefruit".
He walked bowlegged, because his scrotum was the size of a grapefruit.
A compote of cutup oranges, grapefruit, apples and cantaloupe was attractively arranged in a Tiffany bowl.
Indica also stocked her limited-edition book Grapefruit and had some of the Fluxus boxes and posters containing her work on the shelves.
If you make orange juice or, even better, grapefruit juice, save the peels and all the seeds.
One afternoon about three days ago they showed up at my door, with no warning, and loaded about forty pounds of supplies into the room: two cases of Mexican beer, four quarts of gin, a dozen grapefruits, and enough speed to alter the outcome of six Super Bowls.
They sat together on the floor in front of the Tube, with a chair-high bag of Chee-tos and a sixpack of grapefruit soda from the health-food store, watching baseball highlights, commercials, and weather no rain again till it was time for the kissoff story.
There were tomatoes, cucumbers, oranges, pineapples, and grapefruit out there.
The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon or corned beef hash with diced chilies, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of key lime pie, two margaritas and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert.
Doc Savage moved among the palmettos, doubled under a scrawny tree on which grapefruit was growing not much larger than lemons, and unexpectedly found the one guard which Satz had posted.
The chokidar brought a warm bottled grapefruit juice for Frazer to drink.
Deprived of the ambivalent allure of his face—that plowed moon sewn with seeds of nettle and narcissus, that pink grapefruit carved with an assassin's dagger—she was free now to concentrate on his feet, and she focused on his grubby Converses, sometimes separately, sometimes both together, alert to their position vis-à-vis one another, vis-à-vis a crack in the pavement.
The lakes were bordered by tall Dade County pines, and the residents had planted their yards with orange, grapefruit, and mango trees, hedges of Barbados cherry and screw-leaf crotons, and several varieties of palms, including a few stately Royals.
Morgan brought in a half grapefruit bedded in ice, set it down before him.
The remaining hominid was a male, his penis a mere nub in the Brillo pad of his pubic hair, his scrotum as round and intricately puckered as a rotten grapefruit.
There was grapefruit, bacon, waffles, maple syrup, cinnamon toast and weak coffee.