Found 2 items, similar to tangerine.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tangerine
tangerine
adj : of a strong reddish orange color
n 1: a variety of mandarin orange [syn:
tangerine tree]
2: any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United
States and southern Africa
3: a reddish to vivid orange color
English → English (gcide)
Definition: tangerine
Mandarin
\Man`da*rin"\, n. [Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantr[=i]
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]
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]