See also: Tangerine

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From French Tanger +‎ -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtæn.d͡ʒəˌɹiːn/
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  • Rhymes: -iːn

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tangerine (plural tangerines)

  1. An slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.
  2. 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:  
  3. A tree that produces tangerines.
    Synonym: Citrus tangerina
    Hypernym: mandarin orange

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tangerine

  1. Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.

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