Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of tangelo bearing easily peeled deep-orange fruit with a prominent nub around the stem scar.
- noun The fruit of this tree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a cross between a
tangerine and agrapefruit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And sure enough, the minneola really maintained both the grapefruit mama's and the tangerine papa's qualities to mesh them into a unique creation.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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I'd never heard of a minneola, and I surely had never noticed it before in grocery stores.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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Turns out the minneola is actually a successful union of two popular citruses, the grapefruit and the tangerine.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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"The minneola is better in Florida than anywhere on Earth," Chaires said.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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The fruit's real name is minneola, but gift-fruit shippers have taken to calling them honeybells because they believe it is a more attractive name to consumers, much like the horse mackerel was renamed tuna by some marketing genius many years ago.
tcpalm.com Stories 2010
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I am making two different flavors: Strawberry / blackberry and minneola tangerine (a cross between a clementine and a grapefruit).
Behind the Curtain 2009
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