tangerine.
A 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.
Meaning & usage
A 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.
A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
A tree that produces tangerines.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin Tingisder. Arabic طَنْجَة (ṭanja)der. French Tanger Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English tangerine From French Tanger + English -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.
Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin Tingisder. Arabic طَنْجَة (ṭanja)der. French Tanger Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English tangerine From French Tanger + English -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.
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