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UGLI FRUIT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin

Synonyms:

tangelo; ugli; ugli fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("ugli fruit" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("ugli fruit" is a part of...):

Citrus tangelo; tangelo; tangelo tree; ugli fruit (hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida

Synonyms:

Citrus tangelo; tangelo; tangelo tree; ugli fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ugli fruit" is a kind of...):

citrus; citrus tree (any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds)

Meronyms (parts of "ugli fruit"):

tangelo; ugli; ugli fruit (large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin)

Holonyms ("ugli fruit" is a member of...):

genus Citrus (orange; lemon; lime; etc.)

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