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blood orange

noun

  1. any of various sweet oranges having a dark-red pulp.


blood orange

noun

  1. a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blood orange1

First recorded in 1850–55

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Example Sentences

Champagne Royale Take the most delicious fruit in season, such as blood orange, ripe pears or mandarins.

Honey helps job interviews go down easy, and tangy blood orange sharpens all the ideas you bring to the table.

Add the blood orange segments, pomegranate seeds, and fennel fronds and toss gently to mix.

His colour was curiously attractive, while partly tropical; it reminded one vaguely of a blood-orange.

Outside, by the cracked pool, it was coming on slow twilight and that magic, tropical blood-orange sky like a swirl of sorbet.

The field is a rich shade of red verging toward the hue of a blood orange, and again gleaming with far deeper shades.

Like the passing of a shutter across a calcium light: now blinding white, now blood-orange.

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