UGLI

(ˈʌɡlɪ)

n, pl UGLIS or UGLIES

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

[C20: probably an alteration of ugly, referring to its wrinkled skin]

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Ug•li

(ˈʌg li)

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

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Noun

ugli - large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin

tangelo, ugli fruit

edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh

Citrus tangelo, tangelo, tangelo tree, ugli fruit - hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida

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Courthouse." The novel then proceeds to the late 1980s, at which point Popper, at the University of Michigan (and, more specifically, in the basement of a structure that every Wolverine knows all too well, the aptly named UGLi) meets a girl, but the novel soon flashes back again, musing on the question of origin and inheritance, how we become who it is we turn out to be.

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