Wikipedia:Grapefruit
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The best definition of a grapefruit is a grapefruit. Not a photo of a grapefruit, a botanical, chemical, or physical description of a grapefruit; not a list of places where grapefruits are grown or foods that may be combined with them—but the actual item. Just as it is easier to learn through experience, so it is better to put a grapefruit into the hand of the student than to hold one up for examination; and better to allow the student to cut open the fruit and eat it than merely to stare at it or describe it.
We editors should avoid mere technical definition and hierarchical classification. In some cases, of course, the concept is purely abstract; in other cases, it's difficult to reach the reader with the item itself. Our article for grapefruit cannot put a grapefruit into the hands of readers, much less allow them to sample its taste and aroma—but the photo shown on that page is worth all of the words put together. It provides the reader a visual that answers the questions: "What really is a grapefruit? What is the 'grapefruit' that I see?"
Whenever possible, offer the reader the actual item or an example of it. This is quite possible in many cases.