grapefruit
Bedeutung (Englisch)
- (countable, uncountable) The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange.
- (countable, uncountable) The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.
- (countable, plural-normally, uncountable, vulgar) Large breasts; by extension, a woman with large breasts.
Konzepte
Grapefruit-Baum
Zitrus…
Grapefruitbaum
Grape
Zitrusgewächs
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Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ˈɡɹeɪpfɹuːt/
Etymologie (Englisch)
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 "greatfruit" (see greatfruit), and through the process of assimilation, the word came to be pronounced "grapefruit".
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