Ugli Fruit

Definition: Ugli Fruit

Ugli Fruit

Noun

1. Hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida.

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

Specialty Definition: Ugli fruit

An ugli fruit is a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit and a tangerine.

Native to Jamaica, the fruit was first bred in Brown's Town in 1914. It got its name from the unsightly appearance of its rough, wrinkly greenish-yellow skin, wrapped loosely around the orange pulpy citrus inside. An ugli fruit is slightly smaller than a grapefruit. It tends towards the sweet side of the tangerine rather than the sour side of its grapefruit lineage. The fruit is available throughout the winter and spring.

Ancestral Language Translations: Ugli Fruit

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Drosophila melanogaster. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Anagrams: Ugli Fruit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-g-i-i-l-r-t-u-u"
	-4 letters: flirt, fruit, grift, guilt.
	-5 letters: flit, frig, frit, frug, fugu, furl, gift, gilt, girl, girt, glut, grit, gulf, guru, iglu, lift, liri, litu, rift, tirl, trig, trug, turf.
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