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tangerine

DEFINITIONS OF: tangerine

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n a variety of mandarin orange

Synonyms:
tangerine tree
Type of:
Citrus reticulata, mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree
shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia

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

Type of:
mandarin, mandarin orange
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

n a reddish to vivid orange color

Type of:
reddish orange
an orange color closer to red than to yellow

adj of a strong reddish orange color

Synonyms
chromatic
being or having or characterized by hue
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