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Tangerine

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

n. A widely cultivated variety of mandarin orange having deep red-orange fruit with easily separated segments.

n. A strong reddish orange to strong or vivid orange.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any of several varieties of mandarin oranges.

n. A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.

n. A tree that produces tangerines.

adj. Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Relating to Tangiers, an important seaport of Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar.

n. An inhabitant of Tangiers.

n. [lowercase] A Tangerine orange. See orange. Also spelled tangierine.

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

adj. of a strong reddish orange color

n. a variety of mandarin orange

n. a reddish to vivid orange color

n. any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa

Word Usage

"The specific color Pantone has chosen is called "tangerine tango"—a brilliant shade of reddish orange that evokes a fireball as much as fruit."

Equivalent

chromatic

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

mandarin orange tree citrus reticulata mandarin orange mandarin reddish orange

Cross Reference

clementine mandarine minneola

Variant

tangierine

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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Same Context

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