pamplemoussier
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pamplemousse + -ier.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pamplemoussier m (plural pamplemoussiers)
- (botanic) grapefruit tree (Citrus maxima) from the Rutaceae family
- Cette fois-ci l’épreuve pour les deux équipes consistait à déraciner un vieux pamplemoussier.
- This time the test for both teams involved uprooting an old grapefruit tree.
- (Rémy Gils, Parlons Amis: Une langue aborigène de Taïwan, 2010)
Adjective
[edit]pamplemoussier (feminine pamplemoussière, masculine plural pamplemoussiers, feminine plural pamplemoussières)
Further reading
[edit]- “pamplemoussier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.