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Resembling an orange, but much bigger in size, the shaddock is the ancestor of the grapefruit, which was developed from the shaddock in the early nineteenth century in the West Indies. Before settling on its current name, the shaddock was known by several others: the first was the rather whimsical Adam’s apple, first used in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s"],"yoast_head":"\n
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