grapefruit

Etymology
Widely assumed to be a marketing term from, an allusion to the supposed grapelike clusters of fruit on the tree, early c. 19 Ciardi proposes another theory: one of the pomelo's botanical names is , meaning "great citrus [fruit]", due to the size of its fruit. A new pomelo variety might first have been called a "greatfruit" (see ), and through the process of dissimilation, the word came to be pronounced "grapefruit".

Noun

 * 1) The tree of the species, a hybrid of  and sweet orange.
 * 2) The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.
 * 1) The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.

Synonyms

 * grapefruit tree; ; ×,  ×

Hypernyms

 * fruit

Descendants

 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Norwegian:

Translations

 * Arabic: زَنْبَاع
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:, ,
 * Basque: arabisagar arbola
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: aranger
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 西柚
 * Hokkien: 柚仔樹,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish: greippipuu,
 * French:
 * Hebrew: עץ האשכולית
 * Hungarian: grépfrútfa, citrancsfa
 * Icelandic: greipaldin, greipaldintré
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Persian: گریپ‌فروت
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: toronjo
 * Swahili: mbalungi
 * Tagalog: kahil
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: гре́йпфру́т


 * Alabama: yalàaha kaskaha
 * Albanian: grapefruit
 * Arabic: لَيْمُون هِنْدِيّ, جْرِيب فْرُوت, كْرِيفُون, كَرِيفُون, زَنْبَاع
 * Egyptian Arabic: جْريْپ فْروت
 * Lebanese Arabic: غْريْب فْروت
 * Moroccan Arabic: پومْپلْموس
 * South Levantine Arabic: غْريْب فْروت
 * Tunisian Arabic: زِنْباع
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: qreypfrut
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: грэйпфру́т
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ဂရိတ်ဖရု, ကျွဲကောသီး
 * Catalan: aranja
 * Chechen: грейпфрукт
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 西柚
 * Hokkien: 柚仔樹,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: aval paradhis
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: greip, greipfruut, greibipuu
 * Faroese: greypfrukt
 * Fataluku: sapu, sapua
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , chadègue , chadigue
 * Georgian: გრეიპფრუტი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: chadèk
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मौसमी, छोटा चकोतरा,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: greipaldin, greip, tröllaldin
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: lukban
 * Indonesian: jeruk bali,, limau gedang
 * Irish: seadóg
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: jeruk bali
 * Kazakh: грейпфрут
 * Korean:, 자몽
 * Kyrgyz: грейпфрут
 * Lao: ພຸກ, ໝາກສົ້ມໂອ, ສົ້ມ​ໂອ
 * Latvian: greipfrūts, sulenis
 * Lithuanian: greipfrutas
 * Macedonian: гре́јпфрут, цитро́н
 * Makasae: dambua
 * Malay: limau gedang
 * Maltese: lumi-larinġ, tronġa
 * Manchu: ᠵᠣᡶᠣᡥᠣᠨ
 * Manx: shaddag, shaddoge
 * Maori: hauler épée
 * Mongolian: бэрсүүт жүрж
 * Navajo: chʼil łitsxooí ntsxaaígíí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: grapefrukt
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: گریپ فروت
 * Plautdietsch: Pommelmooss
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: turunja
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: grepfrut
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: грѐјпфрут, лиму̀ника
 * Roman: ,
 * Sindhi:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: balungi
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: kahil
 * Tajik: норинҷ, грейпфрут
 * Tausug: suwa' gadja
 * Tetum: jambua
 * Thai: เกรปฟรูต, ส้มโอ
 * Tigrinya: ናርገ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: greýpfrut
 * Ukrainian: гре́йпфру́т
 * Urdu: چکوترا
 * Uzbek: greypfrut
 * Vietnamese:, bưởi đắng
 * Welsh:
 * Wolof: pampëlëmuus, pàmpalmuus
 * Yiddish: גרייפּפֿרוכט, גרייפּפֿרוט

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  tree of the species
 * 2)  fruit produced by the tree of the species