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  • noun An orange citrus fruit originating from Japan, about the size of a tangerine.

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Examples

  • Clementines are commonly called mikan in Japan, satsuma in the UK and Southern United States, and clementine or tangerine in Canada.

    KamlaLebur Kheer or Orange Kheer Bong Mom 2007

  • The top taste for me is also satsuma (mikan in Japanese), which has an interesting tale behind why it is so-called.

    Winter turns to Spring 2009

  • I watched the show almost religiously from that moment, catching up on episodes I had never seen before or re-living my childhood, filled with images of sitting in a kotatsu with mikan-oranges in hand in the cold winter months of Japan.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • I watched the show almost religiously from that moment, catching up on episodes I had never seen before or re-living my childhood, filled with images of sitting in a kotatsu with mikan-oranges in hand in the cold winter months of Japan.

    A childhood hero, actualized. 2007

  • Usually seedless and with a very loose skin that makes it easy to peel, mikan grow in great abundance in Japan.

    Slusho! Commercial Dennis 2007

  • A mikan Japanese tangerine is then placed on top of the mochi.

    Mochi Madness: Part One | The Anime Blog 2007

  • How if you go to the contact us page the Blueberry and the mikan have the oven mit and the hammerhammer is in the belly of the blueberry one now im stuck looking for the cheese.

    Slusho! Flavors Dennis 2007

  • We stroll through silent cedar and cypress forest, passing mountaintop, stone-house villages, terraces of tea bushes, mikan orange trees and oji shrines (dedicated to child gods of the Kumano deity) where pilgrims rested and prayed.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Virus Alice he love to sing but than he ill he must cough ...: '(he loves mikan but mikan loves natsume: D he´s very cold to first but later he´s very funny;) Sry my english is very bad ...

    WN.com - Articles related to Bank of China: New Funding to Suffice for 3 Years 2010

  • My Gakuen alice; P with a new character: Yano Takashi he´s 13 years old and have an Singing - Virus Alice he love to sing but than he ill he must cough ...: '(he loves mikan but mikan loves natsume: D he´s very cold to first but later he´s very funny;) Sry my english is very bad ...

    WN.com - Articles related to Bank of China: New Funding to Suffice for 3 Years 2010

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