grapefruit

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The diet plan calls for replacing some meals with grapefruit, which is known for its fat-burning properties.

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  1. noun A tropical or semitropical evergreen (Citrus paradisi) cultivated for its edible fruit.
  2. noun The large, round fruit of this tree, having a yellow rind and juicy, somewhat acid pulp.

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  • Before the grapefruit was served, there was a knock on the door. —  Transfer of Power - Flynn
  • Out of a scruffy lab of bare wires and tubes, a nervous, grinning scientist tossed a grapefruit into a small metal ring, and without so much as a flash or a blink, the grapefruit was suddenly dropping out of a second ring at the end of the table. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
  • Then, when he did, it was just a little too late The peddlers and their one-horse wagons were very ordinary looking; scores like them ranged the streets of Miami, peddling cocoanuts, grapefruit, and oranges. —  024 - Red Snow
  • I pick 'em off quick as I can -- those chemicals they drag around, they're hell on the grass and shrubbery A pink dome the size of a grapefruit was rising through the murk of the lake, another little Stohler monster coming to meet Papa. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 04 - April 1995
  • Nutritionally speaking, grapefruit is a hero among fruits. —  That's Fit
 

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  1. Probably so called because the fruit grows in clusters.
 

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