grapefruit
- noun
- B2
- Top 10000
A large round citrus fruit with a thick yellow skin and sour, slightly bitter pink or yellow inside.
I usually eat half a grapefruit with my morning coffee.
She squeezed two grapefruits to make fresh juice for breakfast.
This grapefruit is so sour that my mouth hurts.
Some medicines should never be taken with grapefruit juice.
Common collocations: grapefruit juice · half a grapefruit · pink grapefruit · a slice of grapefruit · peel a grapefruit
Forms
- plural
- grapefruit / grapefruits