THE CITRUS DECUMANA OR SHADDOCK

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Litera: Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi
Issue:9
THE CITRUS DECUMANA OR SHADDOCK

THE CITRUS DECUMANA OR SHADDOCK

Authors : Gwyn WILLIAMS

Pages : 1-3

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Publication Date : 2014-08-17

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This excellent fruit has had an involved and not entirely fortunate nomenclative history. A citrus fruit of the East Indies, it is said to have ?een t::ken from there to the West Indies by a Captain Shaddock, late m the 17th century, and called the shaddock (1696) or pomplemousse (1696) (See Weekley, Etymological Di'ctionary of Modern · Engli'sh, ~921). There is no difficulty thus over the word shaddock, except that it has unhappily dropped out of common usage. There are variant spellings, of course. But pomplemousse, again spelt variously, is given a :ariety of interpretations, partly because it is an international word and mvolves different languages in its etymology. A. Dauzat, Dictionnai're Etymologique, ( 1938), gives
Keywords : CITRUS, DECUMANA, SHADDOCK

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