tangerine

4 definitions found

tangerine - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mandarin \Man`da*rin"\, n. [Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantr[imac]
     minister of state, prop. a Hind. word, fr. Skr. mantrin a
     counselor, manira a counsel, man to think.]
     1. A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military
        official in China and Annam.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence: A powerful government official or bureaucrat,
        especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of
        his own importance and privelege.
        [PJC]
  
     3. Hence: A member of an influential, powerful or elite
        group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles;
        -- used especially of elder members who are traditionalist
        or conservative about their specialties.
        [PJC]
  
     5. The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the
        Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire.
        [PJC]
  
     6. Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese
        language spoken by a mojority of the population of China,
        the standard variety of which is spoken in the region
        around Beijing.
        [PJC]
  
     7. (Bot.) A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned
        orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be
        of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species
        (Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called
        also mandarin orange and tangerine.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Mandarin language, the spoken or colloquial language of
        educated people in China.
  
     Mandarin yellow (Chem.), an artificial aniline dyestuff
        used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex
        derivative of quinoline.
        [1913 Webster]

  Tangerine \Tan"ger*ine`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.)
     A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color
     and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in
     America from the mandarin. [Written also tangierine.]
     [1913 Webster]

  colorful \colorful\ adj.
     1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot
           ; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
           prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled
           ]
  
     Syn: colourful.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
        or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
        flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy,  jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty
        ; picturesque]
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
        as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
        monochrome.
  
     Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown
           ; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown
           ; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
           azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome
           ; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue
           ; blushful, blush-colored, rosy
           ; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
           brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow
           ; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
           chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike
           ; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green
           ; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac
           ; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
                               ; mousy, mouse-colored;
           ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
           orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
           purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
                     ; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
           rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown
                     ; sorrel, brownish-orange
           ; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured
           ; tan; tangerine;
           tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red
           ; yellow, yellowish;
           yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue)
           ; coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress
           ; hazel; honey, honey-colored
           ; hued(postnominal); magenta;
           maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
           sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
           light.]
  
     Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
          [WordNet 1.5]

tangerine - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tangerine
      adj 1: of a strong reddish orange color
      n 1: a variety of mandarin orange [syn: tangerine, tangerine tree
           ]
      2: any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United
         States and southern Africa
      3: a reddish to vivid orange color