grapefruit

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹeɪ̯pfɹuːt/|/ˈɡɹɛjpfɹʉwt/    美 /ˈɡɹeɪ̯pfɹut/|/ˈɡɹæɪ̯pfɹʉːt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. Large breasts; by extension, a woman with large breasts. countable,plural-normally,uncountable,vulgar
    — Cupping her grapefruits in her hands, she closed her eyes and imagined her date grasping them, exploring their size, weight, and firmness.

词形变化

grapefruits plural grapefruit plural

词汇关系

近义词
grapefruit tree Citrus × paradisi Citrus sinensis × Citrus grandis Citrus sinensis × Citrus maxima
上位词
citrus fruit
衍生词
Chinese grapefruit grapefruitade grapefruit ade grapefruitini grapefruit juice grapefruit knife Grapefruit League grapefruitlike grapefruit mint grapefruit spoon grapefruity

词源

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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