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CLEMENTINE TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does clementine tree mean?
• CLEMENTINE TREE (noun)
The noun CLEMENTINE TREE has 1 sense:
1. a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa
Familiarity information: CLEMENTINE TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
clementine; clementine tree
Hypernyms ("clementine tree" is a kind of...):
Citrus reticulata; mandarin; mandarin orange; mandarin orange tree (shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia)
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