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Tangerine

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.

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Chromatic 84% connected

Relating to color, or to colors.

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Relating to color, or to colors.

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Mandarin 76% connected

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

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Apricot noun · 78% connection

A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which b…

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Bass horn unknown · 78% connection

A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.

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Blackburnian warbler unknown · 78% connection

A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the h…

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Catamaran noun · 78% connection

A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a…

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Clementine noun · 78% connection

a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa

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Coquelicot noun · 78% connection

The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet.

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Cutter noun · 78% connection

A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same…

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Descent noun · 78% connection

Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lowe…

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Disgust verb · 78% connection

Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily…

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Flame-colored adjective · 78% connection

Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color.

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Foxy adjective · 78% connection

Having the color of a fox; of a yellowish or reddish brown color; -- applied sometimes to paintings when they have too much of this co…

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Gravenstein noun · 78% connection

A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.

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Hanyu Pinyin noun · 78% connection

The official phonetic system for transcribing the Mandarin pronunciations of Chinese characters into the Latin alphabet.

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Helianthin noun · 78% connection

An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.

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Lift verb · 78% connection

To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave;…

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Mahoe noun · 78% connection

erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a moderately dense…

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Mandarinic adjective · 78% connection

Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

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Mellow superl. · 78% connection

Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.

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