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TANGERINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reddish to vivid orange color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("tangerine" is a kind of...):

reddish orange (an orange color closer to red than to yellow)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("tangerine" is a kind of...):

mandarin; mandarin orange (a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China)

Holonyms ("tangerine" is a part of...):

tangerine; tangerine tree (a variety of mandarin orange)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A variety of mandarin orange

Synonyms:

tangerine; tangerine tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tangerine" is a kind 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)

Meronyms (parts of "tangerine"):

tangerine (any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a strong reddish orange color

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

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