As
ugly as an
ugli fruit is, an
ugli fruit is not an
ugly fruit. While this may seem like
splitting hairs or
typonoding, it is not. From the ugli fruit homepage (www.ugli.com),
Ugli® is the registered trademark under which Cabel Hall Citrus Ltd. markets its brand of tangelos grown in Jamaica.
An
Ugli® fruit is, of course, a
tangelo or
tangerine/
grapefruit hybrid. In trying to rescue the
ugli fruit nodeshell (which failed because
I didn't have access to that node
), it is important to note that I am not an
anal-retentive representantive of the
USPTO, but merely a worker of
crossword puzzles in which strange four-letter fruit names occasionally play integral roles. Thus it may be important one day for
you too to understand the difference between an
ugli fruit and an
ugly fruit.