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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. See shaddock.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A variety of the shaddock, smaller than the shaddock proper, but much larger than an orange; the grapefruit. Also called forbidden-fruit. Compare pompelmous.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A large yellow citrus fruit native to southeastern Asia and Malaysia. It has a sweet flesh and is about 25 centimeters in diameter.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp
  2. n. southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits

Etymologies

  1. Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of Dutch pampelmoes ("shaddock"); alternatively, perhaps an alteration of a compound of pome ("apple") + melon, or an alteration of a compound of their cognates (forms such as pomello and pomolo suggest the influence of pome or its cognates, but the hypothesised compound of pome + melon (or mutatis mutandis) is unattested). (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of pompelmous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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