tangerine

plural tangerines

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.

   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.

   1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 97

2. 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.

   2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 343

3. A tree that produces tangerines.

   Synonyms: Citrus tangerina

1. Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.

1. From, or pertaining to Tangier.
2. Of or related to Blackpool Football Club.

   1 more example

   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.”

   2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph

plural Tangerines

1. A native or inhabitant of Tangier.