TANGELO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tangelo mean? 

• TANGELO (noun)
  The noun TANGELO has 2 senses:

1. hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida

2. large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin

  Familiarity information: TANGELO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANGELO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Citrus tangelo; tangelo; tangelo tree; ugli fruit

Hypernyms ("tangelo" is a kind of...):

citrus; citrus tree (any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds)

Meronyms (parts of "tangelo"):

tangelo; ugli; ugli fruit (large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin)

Holonyms ("tangelo" is a member of...):

genus Citrus (orange; lemon; lime; etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

tangelo; ugli; ugli fruit

Hypernyms ("tangelo" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("tangelo" is a part of...):

Citrus tangelo; tangelo; tangelo tree; ugli fruit (hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida)