Tangerine

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  • noun. A widely cultivated variety of mandarin orange having deep red-orange fruit with easily separated segments.
  • noun. A strong reddish orange to strong or vivid orange.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating to Tangiers, an important seaport of Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar.
  • noun. An inhabitant of Tangiers.
  • noun. [lowercase] A Tangerine orange. See orange. Also spelled tangierine.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several varieties of mandarin oranges.
  • noun. A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
  • noun. A tree that produces tangerines.
  • adjective. Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of a strong reddish orange color
  • noun. a variety of mandarin orange
  • noun. a reddish to vivid orange color
  • noun. 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."
    cross-reference
    clementine  mandarine  minneola  
    Equivalent
    chromatic  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    citrus reticulata  mandarin  mandarin orange  mandarin orange tree  reddish orange  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aileen  Amin  Arleen  Augustin  Bean  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Elizabeth  Philip  Suzanne  Tai  bergamot  
    variant
    tangierine  
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