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tan⋅ge⋅rine

  [tan-juh-reen, tan-juh-reen]
–noun
1. Also called mandarin, mandarin orange. any of several varieties of mandarin, cultivated widely, esp. in the U.S.
2. deep orange; reddish orange.
–adjective
3. of the color tangerine; reddish-orange.
Origin:
Tang(i)er + -ine 1
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mandarin orange  
n.  

  1. A small spiny evergreen tree (Citrus reticulata) native to southeast Asia, having sweet edible fruit.

  2. The small, loose-skinned, orange-yellow to deep orange-red fruit of this tree.


[French mandarine, from Spanish mandarina, feminine of mandarín, mandarin; see mandarin.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

tangerine 
1842, from tangerine orange (1841) "an orange from Tangier," seaport in northern Morocco, from which it was originally imported to Britain. The place name is from L. Tinge. As a color name, attested from 1899.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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