tangerine
IPA: tændʒɝˈin
noun
- 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.
- A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.
- A tree that produces tangerines.
- A native or inhabitant of Tangier.
adjective
- Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.
- From, or pertaining to Tangier.
- Of or related to Blackpool Football Club.
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Examples of "tangerine" in Sentences
- My favourite fruit is tangerine.
- I like an orange more than a tangerine.
- It is a yellowish tint of the color tangerine.
- The team wore tangerine, black and white uniform.
- The tangelo is a hybrid between the pomelo and the tangerine.
- Though we used tangerine, any citrus zest could be substituted.
- We have a mature, small tangerine tree that produces much fruit.
- Place the tangerine mixture in a medium, heavy bottomed saucepan.
- This is my own reference sheet of the contents of tangerine tree.
- In the morning Father Christmas left the younger Joannie a tangerine.
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