grapefruit.
The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange.
Meaning & usage
The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange.
The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.
Large breasts; by extension, a woman with large breasts.
Cupping her grapefruits in her hands, she closed her eyes and imagined her date grasping them, exploring their size, weight, and firmness.
Where this word comes from
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.
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