Pomelo

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large yellow citrus fruit native to southeastern Asia and Malaysia. It has a sweet flesh and is about 25 centimeters in diameter.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A large yellow citrus fruit native to southeastern Asia and Malaysia. It has a sweet flesh and is about 25 centimeters in diameter.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp
  • n. southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    citrous fruit    citrus    citrus fruit    citrus tree   
    Variant
    grapefruit   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    shaddock    Chinese grapefruit    jabong    forbidden fruit   
     
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