Ugli

American  

[uhg-lee] / ˈʌg li /

Trademark.

1. a large, sweet variety of tangelo, of Jamaican origin, having rough, wrinkled, yellowish skin.

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UGLI British  

/ ˈʌɡlɪ /

noun

1. Also called: UGLI fruit.  a large juicy yellow-skinned citrus fruit of the Caribbean: a cross between a tangerine, grapefruit, and orange

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Etymology

Origin of UGLI

C20: probably an alteration of _ugly , referring to its wrinkled skin

Example Sentences

You ask about beautifully named foods that you have never engaged with before—ugli fruit, Buddha’s hand, fiddlehead ferns—and then you chat with the people buying them about how they plan to prepare them.

From The New Yorker

He's one of the few retailers to stock ugli fruit - a wrinkled Jamaican orange-tangerine-grapefruit hybrid - and he does a good line in tomato plants and herbs for locals wanting something green to perch on a windowsill or trail across an urban trellis.

From BBC

Available only in winter, it was a cross between a grapefruit, an ugli fruit and a pomelo and called a Sindi.

From New York Times

Among recent marketing failures at Fairway, Seybert cites the ugli, a yellow, rough-skinned fruit from Jamaica that looks like a woebegone grapefruit and tastes like a second- rate one.

From Time Magazine Archive

A lifelong obsession with personal ugli ness began.

From Time Magazine Archive