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Grapefruit   /grˈeɪpfrˌut/   Listen
Grapefruit

noun
1.
Citrus tree bearing large round edible fruit having a thick yellow rind and juicy somewhat acid pulp.  Synonym: Citrus paradisi.
2.
Large yellow fruit with somewhat acid juicy pulp; usual serving consists of a half.



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"Grapefruit" Quotes from Famous Books



... had coffee and fruit. It was an expensive season for eggs, and Rosalie had her eye on a bit of old brocade which was to light a corner of her studio. She breakfasted contentedly on grapefruit, but Perry was rather silent, and I saw for the first time a shadow on his countenance. I wondered if for the moment his mind had wandered to the past, and to his mother's table, with Sunday waffles, omelet, broiled bacon. Yet—there had been no bits of gay brocade ...
— The Gay Cockade • Temple Bailey
... was a new boarder at Lee's ranch. Evidently they had been out on some errand for Mrs. Lee, and were returning from one of the neighboring orange-groves, for the back of the surrey was filled with oranges and grapefruit. ...
— The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor • Annie Fellows Johnston
... should include bran or bran bread, and two or three of the following foods: Apples with skins, grapefruit, cranberries with skins (but little sugar), and figs. Immediately after breakfast walk fifteen minutes in the open air, practicing deep abdominal breathing. If the results at stool before breakfast were not satisfactory, vaseline rectum and ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler
... from his bath, with a sense of being garbed flawlessly, though in garments partly alien, Larry addressed himself to the breakfast of grapefruit, omelette, toast and coffee, served on Sevres china with covers of old silver. In his more prosperous eras Larry had enjoyed the best private service that the best hotels in New York had to sell; but their best had been coarse and slovenly compared to this. ...
— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott


Words linked to "Grapefruit" :   citrus tree, citrous fruit, citrus fruit, citrus, genus Citrus


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