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Pomelo, a large citrus fruit native to Asia, known as 'Youzi' (柚子) in Chinese You Ruo , also known by the name 'Youzi' (有子), a disciple of Confucius Topics referred to by the same term
The pomelo (/ ˈ p ɒ m ɪ l oʊ, ˈ p ʌ m-/ POM-il-oh, PUM-; [2] [3] Citrus maxima), also known as a shaddock, is the largest citrus fruit. It is an ancestor of several cultivated citrus species, including the bitter orange and the grapefruit. It is a natural, non-hybrid, citrus fruit, native to Southeast Asia. Similar in taste to a sweet ...
Banpeiyu (Japanese: 晩白柚) is a cultivar of pomelo which produces extremely large fruits. [1] A banpeiyu fruit became the world's heaviest pomelo when it was presented by Seiji Sonoda from Japan for the Guinness World Record at the Banpeiyu Competition in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan on December 25, 2014. This specimen weighed 4.8597 kg (10 ...
The Chinese name of "mango pomelo sago" (楊枝甘露, meaning "willow branch manna") comes from the concept of dropping manna from a willow branch which makes people feel refreshed when they taste it. It is also a magical tool used by Guanyin in the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West.
Ponkan (Hokkien Chinese: 椪柑; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phòng-kam); Citrus poonensis; "Chinese Honey Orange") is a high-yield sweet Citrus cultivar with large fruits in the size of an orange. It is a citrus hybrid (mandarin × pomelo), [1] though it was once thought to be a pure mandarin. [2] [3]
Pomelo, a large citrus fruit known as 'pamplemousse' in French spoken in France; Grapefruit, a pomelo hybrid known by the name 'pamplemousse' in French spoken in Quebec, Switzerland and Belgium; Frankie Pamplemousse, a cartoon character on The ZhuZhus; A flavor of La Croix Sparkling Water "Pamplemousse", song by FKA Twigs on the 2022 mixtape ...
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Lin's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage comprises approximately 8,100 character head entries and 110,000 word and phrase entries. [10] It includes both modern Chinese neologisms such as xǐnǎo 洗腦 "brainwash" and many Chinese loanwords from English such as yáogǔn 搖滾 "rock 'n' roll" and xīpí 嬉皮 "hippie".