Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tropical southeast Asian tree (Citrus maxima) closely related to the grapefruit and having very large round fruit with thick rinds and coarse-grained pulp.
- n. The edible yellow fruit of the shaddock.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A tree, Citrus decumana, of the orange genus; also, its fruit. The tree grows 30 or 40 feet high, and is the most handsome of the genus. It. is a native of the Malayan and Polynesian islands, now cultivated in many warm countries. The fruit is globose or pyriform and orange-like, but very large, weighing sometimes 15 pounds, and of a pale-yellow color; the pulp is yellow, green, pink, or crimson, and is wholesome; the rind and partitions are very bitter. There are numerous varieties, some very juicy and refreshing. The shaddock proper is, however, generally inferior to its smaller variety, the grape-fruit or pomelo, which is further distinguished by bearing its fruit in clusters. Both are to some extent grown in Florida, the latter becoming a considerable article of export to the North. Also
pomplemous . Seegrape-fruit and pomelo.
Wiktionary
- n. pomelo
- n. grapefruit
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also
forbidden fruit , andpompelmous .
WordNet 3.0
- n. large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp
- n. southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
Etymologies
- After Captain Shaddock, 17th-century English ship commander. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
““Kubád” = shaddock (citrus decumana): the huge orange which Captain Shaddock brought from the West Indies; it is the”
“And shaddock mid the garden paths, on bough, viii.”
“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”
“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
“Among the choicest, I would name the mangistan, the durian, and the pumaloe or shaddock.”
“The shaddock of Java is a magnificent fruit, and surpasses those of any other country with which I am acquainted.”
“* "Forbidden fruit" is a small variety of shaddock, so called because it is supposed to resemble the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.”
“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.”
“He has stripped my rails of the shaddock-frails and the green unripened pine;”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shaddock’.
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
Fictional Irish Towns
better look them up beforehand, though--most everything in Ireland sounds fictional.
terwillicky, boblin, wommacky, gorm, killoonagh, birnet, puckle, whelvety, christmas aoimh, minnamogie, spackish, leprechaunia and 76 more...
-
Exotic Tastes
Interesting words related to food, ingredients, dishes, cookery, cuisines and so on. Exotic in this case is entirely subjective, with funkelberries on top.
tatty, neep, flummery, babaganoush, tahini, samphire, loblolly, scrumpy, fressen, luwak, duxelle, edamame and 213 more...
-
Citrus
I thought making a list of citrus fruits would be easy. Turns out citrus trees hybridize easily and most of the hybrids fruits have names, often formed by hybridizing the common names.
orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, tangerine, clementine, ugli, bergamot, pomelo, pummelo, ortanique, citron and 87 more...
-
*ddock
Words or phrases ending in 'ddock'.
daddock, haddock, finnan haddock, juddock, maddock, paddock, piddock, puddock, raddock, ruddock, shaddock, razor ruddock and 12 more...
-
Eating Words
eat, fret, frass, etch, ort, edacious, edible, escarole, esculent, esurient, comedo, comestible and 49 more...
-
perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
-
hybrid fruits and a few beasties too
tangelo, pluot, tomacco, citrofortunella, limequat, ugli fruit, grapefruit, oroblanco, calamondin, orangelo, dekopon, lemanderin and 33 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for shaddock.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.