tangerine

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tan=ge=rine

CIDE DICTIONARY

tangerine, n. [Etymol. uncertain.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tangerine, n.
1 a small sweet orange-coloured citrus fruit with a thin skin; a mandarin.
2 a deep orange-yellow colour.

Etymology

Tangier in Morocco