'Tangerine' definitions:
Definition of 'tangerine'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of a strong reddish orange color
noun
A variety of mandarin orange [syn: tangerine, tangerine tree]
noun
Any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
noun
A reddish to vivid orange color
Definition of 'Tangerine'
From: GCIDE
- Tangerine \Tan"ger*ine`\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Bot.) A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin. [Written also tangierine.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'tangerine'
From: GCIDE
- Mandarin \Man`da*rin"\, n. [Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantr[imac] minister of state, prop. a Hind. word, fr. Skr. mantrin a counselor, manira a counsel, man to think.]
- 1. A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege. [PJC]
- 3. Hence: A member of an influential, powerful or elite group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles; -- used especially of elder members who are traditionalist or conservative about their specialties. [PJC]
- 5. The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire. [PJC]
- 6. Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese language spoken by a mojority of the population of China, the standard variety of which is spoken in the region around Beijing. [PJC]
- 7. (Bot.) A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and tangerine. [1913 Webster]
- Mandarin language, the spoken or colloquial language of educated people in China.
- Mandarin yellow (Chem.), an artificial aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of quinoline. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'tangerine'
From: GCIDE
- colorful \colorful\ adj.
- 1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
- Note: [Narrower terms: {changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot}; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; {red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled}]
- Syn: colourful. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; {flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty}; picturesque] [WordNet 1.5]
- 3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
- Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; {amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown}; amethyst; {auburn, reddish-brown}; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; {bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome}; {blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue}; {blushful, blush-colored, rosy}; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; {canary, canary-yellow}; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; {earth-colored, earthlike}; fuscous; {green, greenish, light-green, dark-green}; jade, jade-green; khaki; {lavender, lilac}; mauve; moss green, mosstone; {motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured}; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; {red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet}; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; {snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown}; {sorrel, brownish-orange}; stone, stone-gray; {straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured}; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; {vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red}; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; {blae bluish-black or gray-blue)}; coral; creamy; {cress green, cresson, watercress}; hazel; {honey, honey-colored}; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
- Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
Tangerine, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Tangerine, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
Population (2000) :
826
Housing Units (2000) :
348
Land area (2000) :
1.153791 sq. miles (2.988305 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.649145 sq. miles (1.681277 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
1.802936 sq. miles (4.669582 sq. km)
FIPS code :
71100
Located within :
Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location :
28.758581 N, 81.631852 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.