Other forms: tangerines
A tangerine is a small loose-skinned orange citrus fruit. Peel a tangerine, tangerine segments, a box of tangerines.
The skin comes away in one piece, which is the difference from an orange, and the fruit is a kind of mandarin. It also names a bright orange colour. The name comes from Tangier in Morocco, the port the first shipments were sent from.
1nountangerineA small loose-skinned orange citrus fruit.
“At Christmas, we always found a tangerine in the toe of our stocking.”
tangerine is a fruit.
Named after Tangier in Morocco, the port from which the fruit was shipped in the nineteenth century.
From Tanger + -ine. after Tangier, Morocco.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA