ugli fruit

Questions about ugli fruit

What does ugli fruit mean?

ugli fruit means "hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for ugli fruit?

Close synonyms include tangelo, tangelo tree, Citrus tangelo, tangelo, ugli. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ugli fruit a common word?

ugli fruit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.