Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tree, Citrus decumana, of the orange genus; also, its fruit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A tree (
Citrus decumana ) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called alsoforbidden fruit , andpompelmous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
pomelo - noun
grapefruit
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp
- noun southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Red snapper was crusted in coconut and further enhanced by persimmon chutney and green curry, and the two dessert courses featured a soup pressed from pomelo (the Asian forebear of the grapefruit, aka shaddock, named after the sea captain who brought its seed to the West Indies from the Malay Peninsula in the 17th century) and a soufflé of kalamansi, the delicate citrus of the Philippines.
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“Kubád” = shaddock (citrus decumana): the huge orange which Captain Shaddock brought from the West Indies; it is the
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And shaddock mid the garden paths, on bough, viii.
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Oranges thrive better than below, producing abundance of delicious fruit; but the shaddock or pumplemous (Citrus decumana) requires the full force of a tropical sun, for it will not thrive even at
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The monstrous shaddock, citrons of all shapes and sizes, oranges and lemons, are all varieties, obtained in the course of long cultivation.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various
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Among the choicest, I would name the mangistan, the durian, and the pumaloe or shaddock.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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The shaddock of Java is a magnificent fruit, and surpasses those of any other country with which I am acquainted.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson
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* "Forbidden fruit" is a small variety of shaddock, so called because it is supposed to resemble the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.
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Delightful self-accountant reverence of author-craft! which wields full knowledge of a shaddock-tainted world, yet presents no licence to the prurient lad, reveals no trail to the suspicious moralist.
Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902
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He has stripped my rails of the shaddock-frails and the green unripened pine;
Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900
chained_bear commented on the word shaddock
"Grapefruits -- originally called shaddocks -- and limes were also imported from the West Indies, but neither initially found favour."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 156
January 16, 2017