grapefruit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Widely assumed to be a marketing term from grape + fruit, an allusion to the supposed grapelike clusters of fruit on the tree, early 19th c. Ciardi proposes another theory: one of the pomelo's botanical names is Citrus grandis, meaning “great citrus [fruit]”, due to the size of its fruit. A new pomelo variety might first have been called a GRAYT-froot (see greatfruit), and through the process of assimilation, the word came to be pronounced GRAYP-froot.
Inflected forms:
form: grapefruits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grapefruit
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Results have begun to come in and at Comfort Castle this month I spent a useful and happy half day carting round 8 children in my car to their homes where we all helped to fill in with good soil and manure, their excellently dug holes and planted the grapefruit.
gloss: The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Grapefruit is high in vitamin C. The pink and red varieties contain vitamin A (betacarotene) and lycopene, an antioxidant that may help prevent cancer. Grapefruit contains a chemical that can alter intestinal absorption of some medications and lead to higher than normal blood levels of some drugs and potential problems.
Once loaded by Canaveral, the grapefruit are transported to Japan, where the shipments are unloaded by employees of Japanese stevedoring companies. The grapefruit are then received by the Japanese importers.
gloss: Large breasts; by extension, a woman with large breasts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
vulgar
examples: Cupping her grapefruits in her hands, she closed her eyes and imagined her date grasping them, exploring their size, weight, and firmness.
Dan hauled her to the carpet as she fell limp over him. She stretched out on her back, her grapefruits, fitted snugly into her sturdy cotton bra, rock hard under his nose.
In walked my supposedly dead niece Esmerelda wearing shorts that didn't exist and a top that made her grapefruits look like honeydews, if you get my drift.
He raised his hand again. "If you scratch my face and I give you a black eye—who's worse off? Because what've you got besides a pair of grapefruits and a pretty face? So let me show you something else I bought."
A new pair of grapefruits arrives with yet another tray of drinks. She says that they were sent by someone at another table and points a fingernail in the direction of our benefactor.
I lay there for about twenty seconds trying to get my wind back, until slowly and painfully I picked myself up as best I could and with as much class as I could muster in the circumstances, but keeping my eyes on her grapefruits – the ones in the bag, I hasten to add.
I walked up behind her and pushed my cucumber hard against her booty. Kissed her on the neck and felt those grapefruits. Our mouths met and our tongues also. Strong sexual desire consumed us. I pulled the straps of her outfit over her shoulders and I was soon flavoring her grapefruits, while she unzipped my pants and tasted my cucumber. Soon, we were both naked in the bed. My cucumber had found her orchard.
Synonyms: grapefruit tree
Citrus × paradisi
Citrus sinensis × Citrus grandis
Citrus sinensis × Citrus maxima
Derived words: Chinese grapefruit
grapefruitade
grapefruit ade
grapefruitini
grapefruit juice
grapefruit knife
Grapefruit League
grapefruitlike
grapefruit mint
grapefruit spoon
grapefruity
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: زَنْبَاع
roman: zanbāʕ
lang: Armenian
word: գրեյպֆրուտ
roman: greypfrut
lang: Asturian
word: pomelar
lang: Asturian
word: pomelu
lang: Asturian
word: sidru
lang: Basque
word: arabisagar arbola
lang: Bulgarian
word: грейпфру́т
roman: grejpfrút
lang: Catalan
word: aranger
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 西柚
lang: Chinese
word: 柚仔樹 /柚仔树
roman: iū-á-chhiu
lang: Chinese
word: 葡萄柚
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 柚子
roman: yòuzi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 葡萄柚
roman: pútáoyòu
lang: Finnish
word: greippipuu
lang: Finnish
word: greippi
lang: French
word: pamplemoussier
lang: Hebrew
word: עץ האשכולית
lang: Hungarian
word: grépfrútfa
lang: Hungarian
word: citrancsfa
lang: Icelandic
word: greipaldin
lang: Icelandic
word: greipaldintré
lang: Italian
word: pompelmo
lang: Japanese
word: グレープフルーツ
roman: gurēpufurūtsu
lang: Korean
word: 그레이프프루트
roman: geureipeupeuruteu
lang: Persian
word: گریپفروت
roman: gereypfrut
lang: Polish
word: grejpfrut
lang: Polish
word: grapefruit
lang: Portuguese
word: toranjeira
lang: Russian
word: грейпфру́т
roman: grejpfrút
lang: Spanish
word: toronjo
lang: Swahili
word: mbalungi
lang: Tagalog
word: kahil
lang: Turkish
word: greyfurt
lang: Ukrainian
word: гре́йпфру́т
roman: hréjpfrút
lang: Ulwa (Nicaragua)
word: aduk