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Tangerine
Definitions
- 1 Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.
- 2 From, or pertaining to Tangier.
- 3 Of or related to Blackpool Football Club.
"They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”"
- 1 of a strong reddish orange color wordnet
- 1 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.
"As Hiro approaches, Vitaly watches his sword uncertainly. Vitaly's eyes are dry and red, and on his lower lip he is sporting a chancre the size of a tangerine."
- 2 A native or inhabitant of Tangier.
- 3 a reddish to vivid orange color wordnet
- 4 A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
"The sun was beginning to set, and under the tangerine sky, Reese tugged his undershirt over his head."
- 5 any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa wordnet
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- 6 A tree that produces tangerines.
- 7 a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin wordnet
Etymology
From French Tanger + -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.
From French Tanger + -ine, after Tangier, Morocco.
From French Tanger (Tangier, Morocco) + -ine.
From French Tanger (Tangier, Morocco) + -ine.
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