tangerine

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæn.d͡ʒəˌɹiːn/

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• Rhymes: -iːn

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.

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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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