Citrus maxima
Categories: Ayurvedic Medicine, Essential Oil, Food, Medicinal Plant, Powder, Tea, Tincture, Traditional Chinese Medicine
Pomelo (Wiktionary)
English
Alternative forms
- pommelo, pummelo, pomelow, pummaloe, pummelow
- (obsolete): pomello, pomolo, pumelo
Etymology
Of uncertain etymology, though possibly a variant of earlier pampelmoes, from French, Dutch, Portuguese sources ultimately equivalent to "thick lemon" or transcribing the Tamil பம்ப ளிமாசு (pampa ḷimācu, “big citrus”). Alternatively, possibly from pome (“apple”) + melon or some cognate; though such a compound is currently unattested, some early variant
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