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Clementine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A deep red-orange, often seedless mandarin orange.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A type of small, sweet orange, the result of a cross between a tangerine and Seville orange.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to one of several ecclesiastics named Clement, especially— St. Clement, bishop of Rome in the first century;

Pope Clement V. (1305–1314);

Clement VII. (1378–1394), the first of the antipopes of Avignon.

n. One of a series of compilations attributed to St. Clement.

n. plural That part of the body of canon law which contains the collections made by Pope Clement V. of the acts of the Council of Vienne, a. d. 1311–12, with the addition of some of his decretals.

n. A follower of, or a believer in the authority of, the antipope Clement VII.

n. Same as methylene-violet.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds

n. a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa

Word Usage

"The clementine is a type of mandarin baptized by Father Clément Rodier at his Algerian orphanage in 1902."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

mandarin orange mandarin mandarin orange tree citrus reticulata

Cross Reference

clementine liturgy