Pomelo

Quick meaning: Pomelo is a noun meaning The tree which produces this fruit.

Meaning

The tree which produces this fruit.

More Meanings

1. (US, Caribbean, archaic) The grapefruit.
2. The large fruit of the Citrus maxima (syn. C. grandis), native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, with a thick green or yellow rind, a thick white pith, and semi-sweet translucent pale flesh.

Example Sentences

The pomelo has unfortunately been marketed under the name “grape-fruit,” and it is doubtful whether the correct name, pomelo, will ever displace the trade name.

SHADDOCK, AND POMELO, OR GRAPE-FRUIT. (Citrus aurantium decumana.*) The cultivation of these fruits is extendiug gradually, especially of the pomelo, which is a first-class marketable fruit, very valuable in the spring and early summer.

Pomelo.* — Much larger than an orange and smaller than a shaddock; a delicious fruit, preferred by many to the orange. Skin smooth, pale yellow; subacid. The membrane dividing the pulp is bitter, and must be removed before eating the pulp. Also called "grape-fruit" from its habit of growing in clusters.

POMELO (syn. grape fruit).—A variety of shaddock; fruit very large, from two to five pounds each, pale yellow, resembling the citron; skin smooth; pulp sub-acid. / SHADDOCK.—Tree inclined to be dwarf; fruit very large, with smooth skin, pale yellow and very glossy; the rind is very thick and spongy, and very bitter; ornamental only

Word Forms

• pomelos
• pomeloes
• pommelo
• pomello
• pomolo

Synonyms for pomelo

Depending on context, synonyms include grapefruit, pampelmoes, shaddock, pummelo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shaddock, pummelo, pommelo, pomolo, pomello, pumelo.

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