TANGERINE TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tangerine tree mean? 

• TANGERINE TREE (noun)
  The noun TANGERINE TREE has 1 sense:

1. a variety of mandarin orange

  Familiarity information: TANGERINE TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANGERINE TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A variety of mandarin orange

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

tangerine; tangerine tree

Hypernyms ("tangerine 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)

Meronyms (parts of "tangerine tree"):

tangerine (any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa)