orange
Other forms: oranges
An orange is a citrus tree that produces sweet-smelling white blossoms, and eventually, oranges. Orange, as in the bright color, comes from the name of the fruit and tends to be used for items we need to notice: like road construction signs and prison jumpsuits.
Oranges grow in warm places like Florida, California, and Brazil, where they are harvested to be eaten and made into juice and other products. The color of the orange, in varying hues, is also orange, a warm, sunny shade that falls between red and yellow on the color spectrum. The first orange trees probably grew in India, and the word itself has its roots in the Sanskrit naranga-s, "orange tree."
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any citrus tree bearing orangessynonyms: orange treetypes:Citrus aurantium, Seville orange, bigarade, bitter orange, bitter orange tree, marmalade orange, sour orangeany of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stockCitrus bergamia, bergamot, bergamot orangesmall tree with pear-shaped fruit whose oil is used in perfumery; ItalyCitrus sinensis, sweet orange, sweet orange treeprobably native to southern China; widely cultivated as source of table and juice orangesCitrus nobilis, king orange, tangor, temple orange, temple orange treelarge citrus tree having large sweet deep orange fruit that is easily peeled; widely cultivated in Floridatype of:citrus, citrus treeany of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds
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round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus treestypes:temple orangelarge sweet easily-peeled Florida fruit with deep orange rindsweet orangeorange with sweet juicy pulp; often has a thin skinJaffa orangesweet almost seedless orange of Israelnavel orangeseedless orange enclosing a small secondary fruit at the apexValencia orangevariety of sweet orange cultivated extensively in Florida and Californiatype of:citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruitany of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions
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orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellowsynonyms: orangenesstypes:reddish orangean orange color closer to red than to yellowtangerinea reddish to vivid orange colortype of:
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any pigment producing the orange colortype of:pigmentdry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
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of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange
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Vocabulary lists containing orange
The words on this list do not denote color in and of themselves, but you can (and should) use them that way. They'll brighten your writing and make your descriptions more visually specific -- think apple green as opposed to bright green.
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