Ugli

[uhg-lee]

Trademark.

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

UGLI

/ 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Ugli¹

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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A lifelong obsession with personal ugli ness began.

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