Crossword clues for shaddock
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shaddock \Shad"dock\, n. [Said to be so called from a Captain Shaddock, who first brought this fruit from the East Indies.] (Bot.) A tree ( Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
Wiktionary
n. 1 pomelo 2 grapefruit
WordNet
n. southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits [syn: pomelo, pomelo tree, pummelo, Citrus maxima, Citrus grandis, Citrus decumana]
large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp [syn: pomelo]
Wikipedia
Shaddock may refer to:
- Pomelo, fruit Citrus maxima
- NATO codenames for Soviet missiles:
- P-5 Pyatyorka (SS-N-3 Shaddock)
- SPU-35V Redut (SSC-1B Shaddock)
Usage examples of "shaddock".
An impatient signal sent him out dumb,--and Raynham was quit of the one believer in the Great Shaddock dogma.
A tree with dark-yellowish leaves, taller than most timber trees on Earth, bore at the end of drooping twigs large dark-red fruits--fruits with a rind something like that of a pomegranate, save for the colour and hardness, and about the size of a shaddock or melon.
Samson missile, an advanced version of the older Soviet Shaddock, travels at speeds in excess of Mach 2 and carries a warhead containing a thousand pounds of TNT.
Here we passed through fields of maize and groves of baby orange-trees and shaddock, which, it was hoped, would some day bear a rich crop.
Merry sat under one of a lovely avenue of shaddock trees, on a blanket in the grass.
The products are manifold--guavas, mangoes, lemons, oranges, bananas, plantains, shaddocks, bread-fruit, etc.
From an orange tree beyond the shaddocks came mockingbird song that filled the pause like tuned bells.
Upon the docks a mighty Bustling proceeds, as Waggon-drivers mingle with higher-born couples in Italian chaises, Negroes with hand-barrows, Irish servants with cargo of all sorts upon their backs, running Dogs, rooting Hogs, and underfoot lies all the debris of global Traffick, shreds of spices and teas and coffee-berries, splashes of Geneva gin and Queen-of-Hungary water, oranges and shaddocks fallen and squash'd, seeds that have sprouted between the cobblestones, Pills Balsamic and Universal, ground and scatter'd, down where the Flies convene, and the Spadger hops.