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Definition of: shaddock
(shad′ək) noun
1. The large, pale–yellow fruit of a tropical tree (genus Citrus), varying in size from the smaller grapefruit or pomelo of the United States to the pompelmous, which may be 8 inches in diameter.
2. The tree. [after Capt. Shaddock, commander of an East India ship, who brought the seed to the West Indies from the East Indies in 1696]
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