Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hybrid citrus tree derived from a tangerine and a grapefruit or pomelo, having juicy flavorful fruit with a loose rind.
- noun The fruit of this tree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A class of hybrids of the tangerine orange and the grape-fruit or pomelo. At least three of these hybrids have been secured by the United States Department of Agriculture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hybrid between the tangerine orange and the grapefruit, or pomelo; also, the fruit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
citrus fruit that is a cross between atangerine and apomelo or agrapefruit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hybrid between grapefruit and mandarin orange; cultivated especially in Florida
- noun large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Come splash when the moon is a tangelo and the Pisces pawn has knocked the Aries queen off the boardwalk.
Ghost Camp Misti Rainwater-Lites 2011
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He might be thinking about the well-being of his young wife, or the realities of imprisonment, or his prostate slowly growing to the size of a tangelo.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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But what on earth is a tangelo – something they eat in Quebec?
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Palinode: This duvet cover is less orange and more of a tangelo colour.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Palinode: This duvet cover is less orange and more of a tangelo colour.
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Now, I zip to the Republic of Whole Foods for oh, a tangelo orange in the middle of the day (seriously) just because the store is close by, pretty to look at and fun to visit.
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» Maybe Brand's not Always the Object from tangelo ideas - erniesblog
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Catching grandma jamming a tangelo into my stocking.
Ahhhh, Memories 2006
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» Possibly my favorite .... from tangelo ideas - erniesblog
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Catching grandma jamming a tangelo into my stocking.
December 2006 2006
lbeaumont commented on the word tangelo
This can also describe a bright orange-red color. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangelo_(color)#Tangelo
October 15, 2010