shad|dock

shad|dock
shad|dock «SHAD uhk», noun.
1. the pear-shaped citrus fruit of a tree of the rue family, like a coarse, dry, inferior grapefruit.
2. the tree that it grows on.
[< a Captain Shaddock, who introduced the fruit into the West Indies in the 1600's]

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