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TANGELO TREE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida

Synonyms:

Citrus tangelo; tangelo; tangelo tree; ugli fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tangelo tree" is a kind of...):

citrus; citrus tree (any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds)

Meronyms (parts of "tangelo tree"):

tangelo; ugli; ugli fruit (large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin)

Holonyms ("tangelo tree" is a member of...):

genus Citrus (orange; lemon; lime; etc.)

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