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oranges

[awr-inj, or-]

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noun

a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.

any white-flowered, evergreen citrus trees of the genus Citrus, bearing this fruit, as C. aurantium (bitter orange, Seville orange, or sour orange) and C. sinensis (sweet orange), cultivated in warm countries.

any of several other citrus trees, as the trifoliate orange.

any of several trees or fruits resembling an orange.

a color between yellow and red in the spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 590 and 610 nm; reddish yellow.

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Art. a secondary color that has been formed by the mixture of red and yellow pigments.

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adjective

of or pertaining to the orange.

made or prepared with oranges or orangelike flavoring: orange sherbet.

of the color orange; reddish-yellow.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English: the fruit or tree < Old French orenge, cognate with Spanish naranja < Arabic nāranj < Persian nārang < Sanskrit nāraṅga

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noun

a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.

a river in the Republic of South Africa, flowing W from Lesotho to the Atlantic. 1300 miles (2095 km) long.

a former small principality of W Europe: now in the SE part of France.

a city in SW California, near Los Angeles. 91,788.

a city in NE New Jersey, near Newark. 31,136.

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a town in SE France, near Avignon: Roman ruins. 26,468.

a city in SE Texas. 23,628.

a town in S Connecticut. 13,237.

Fort. Fort Orange.

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Word Origin & History

orange

c.1300, from O.Fr. orenge (12c.), from M.L. pomum de orenge, from It. arancia, originally narancia (Venetian naranza), alt. of Arabic naranj, from Pers. narang, from Skt. naranga-s "orange tree," of uncertain origin. Loss of initial n- probably due to confusion with definite article (e.g. une narange,

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una narancia), but perhaps infl. by Fr. or "gold." The tree's original range probably was northern India. The Persian orange, grown widely in southern Europe after its introduction in Italy 11c., was bitter; sweet oranges were brought to Europe 15c. from India by Portuguese traders and quickly displaced the bitter variety, but only Mod.Gk. still seems to distinguish the bitter (nerantzi) from the sweet (portokali "Portuguese") orange. Portuguese, Spanish, Arab, and Dutch sailors planted citrus trees along trade routes to prevent scurvy. On his second voyage in 1493, Christopher Columbus brought the seeds of oranges, lemons and citrons to Haiti and the Caribbean. Introduced in Florida (along with lemons) in 1513 by Sp. explorer Juan Ponce de Leon. Introduced to Hawaii 1792. Not used as the name of a color until 1542.

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Idioms & Phrases

oranges

see apples and oranges.