tangerine

1. 1.

   of a strong reddish orange color

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of tangerine

plural

tangerines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tangerine

What does tangerine mean?

tangerine means "a variety of mandarin orange". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tangerine?

tangerine has 3 syllables: tan-ge-rine. The stress falls on "rine". In IPA it is /ˌtændʒɚˈin/.

What is another word for tangerine?

Close synonyms include tangerine tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tangerine a common word?

tangerine is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tangerine?

11 words rhyme with tangerine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.