tangerine

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.

As Hiro approaches, Vitaly watches his sword uncertainly. Vitaly's eyes are dry and red, and on his lower lip he is sporting a chancre the size of a tangerine.

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

The sun was beginning to set, and under the tangerine sky, Reese tugged his undershirt over his head.

A tree that produces tangerines.

Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.

From, or pertaining to Tangier.

Of or related to Blackpool Football Club.

They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”