Meaning

3 senses
  1. A slightly ovoid, orange-coloured citrus fruit with a rough peel and a sour-sweet taste which is larger than a clementine and sometimes classed as a variety of mandarin orange.

  2. A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.

    Mandarine

    мандари́нmandarín

    мандари́нmandarýn

  3. A tree that produces tangerines.

    мандари́нmandarín

More definitions
  • a reddish to vivid orange color
  • any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
  • a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin

Examples

26 sentences
  1. Do they sell tangerines?

    Там продаються мандарини?

    ruПродают ли они мандарины?

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  2. This area is famous for tangerines.

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  3. What's the difference between a tangerine and a mandarin orange?

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  4. Please buy some tangerines.

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  5. This tangerine is delicious.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
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Русский
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fruit:
Deutsch
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Forms

plural: tangerines
Singulartangerine
Pluraltangerines

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Citrus tangerina
Close in meaning
  • a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin:tangerine tree

Word family

4 related words

See also

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