grapefruit
n. 葡萄轴
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1.
The large spherical tart fruit produced by this tree.
葡萄柚
柚子
西柚
柚仔树
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The tree of the species Citrus paradisi, a hybrid of Citrus maxima and sweet orange.
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Large breasts; by extension, a woman with large breasts.
可数 不可数 粗俗Cupping her grapefruits in her hands, she closed her eyes and imagined her date grasping them, exploring their size, weight, and firmness.
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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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