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forbidden fruit
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Forbidden fruit
(gcide) | Forbidden \For*bid"den\, a.
Prohibited; interdicted.
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I know no spells, use no forbidden arts. --Milton.
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Forbidden fruit.
(a) Any coveted unlawful pleasure, -- so called with
reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.
(b) (Bot.) A small variety of shaddock (Citrus decumana).
The name is given in different places to several
varieties of Citrus fruits.
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forbidden fruit
(gcide) | Shaddock \Shad"dock\, n. [Said to be so called from a Captain
Shaddock, who first brought this fruit from the East Indies.]
(Bot.)
A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large
species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and
pompelmous.
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forbidden fruit
(wn) | forbidden fruit
n 1: originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and
evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to
anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality) |
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forbidden fruit
(encz) | forbidden fruit, n: |
forbidden fruit
(gcide) | Forbidden \For*bid"den\, a.
Prohibited; interdicted.
[1913 Webster]
I know no spells, use no forbidden arts. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
Forbidden fruit.
(a) Any coveted unlawful pleasure, -- so called with
reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.
(b) (Bot.) A small variety of shaddock (Citrus decumana).
The name is given in different places to several
varieties of Citrus fruits.
[1913 Webster]Shaddock \Shad"dock\, n. [Said to be so called from a Captain
Shaddock, who first brought this fruit from the East Indies.]
(Bot.)
A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large
species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and
pompelmous.
[1913 Webster] |
forbidden fruit
(wn) | forbidden fruit
n 1: originally an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and
evil in the Garden of Eden; it is now used to refer to
anything that is tempting but dangerous (as sexuality) |
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