tangerine
See also: Tangerine
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French Tanger + -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tangerine (plural tangerines)
- Any of several varieties of mandarin oranges.
- A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
- 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 343:
- The sun was beginning to set, and under the tangerine sky, Reese tugged his undershirt over his head.
- tangerine:
- A tree that produces tangerines.
- Synonym: Citrus tangerina
- Hypernym: mandarin orange
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AdjectiveEdit
tangerine
- Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.
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