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orange
has definitions from the fields of color,chemistry,botany,food,geography
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[ adjective ] (color) similar to the color of a ripe orange
Synonyms Used in print (Christopher Davis, First Family....)They ate the cafeteria food with its orange sauces and Scotty gazed without interest at his food , the teachers , the heroic baronial windows , and the bright ranks of college banners . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Without looking at him , without looking at anything except Drexel_Street directly in_front of her , she climbed_up into one of those orange streetcars , rode_away in it , and never came_back . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (chemistry,botany,food) round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)The flavor is neither sweet , like a pear , nor tart like an orange ; it is subtle and rather bland , nut like . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)They went shopping in the neighborhood , and bought two loaves_of_bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois , and some cheese , and a dozen eggs , and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place_Redoute - the first oranges they had seen since they landed . They went shopping in the neighborhood , and bought two loaves_of_bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois , and some cheese , and a dozen eggs , and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place_Redoute - the first oranges they had seen since they landed . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (color) any of a range of colors between red and yellow
Synonyms Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Orange and lemon are considered important as are such pastels as blue and lilac . (B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)As we have already seen in the first chapter , bumblebees are bigger , hairier , and much more colorful than honeybees , exhibiting various combinations of black , yellow , white and orange . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (botany) any citrus tree bearing oranges
Synonyms Used in print (Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)He came to a stretch of old orange groves , the trees dead , some of them uprooted , and then there was an outlying shopping area , and tract houses . Related terms citrus sour_orange temple_orange bergamot sweet_orange genus_Citrus orangewood |
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[ noun ] (geography) a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 7312
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[ noun ] (color) any pigment producing the orange color
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