The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orange \Or"ange\ ([o^]r"[e^]nj), n. [F.; cf. It. arancia, arancio, LL. arangia, Sp. naranjia, Pg. laranja; all fr. Ar. n[=a]ranj, Per. n[=a]ranj, n[=a]rang; cf. Skr. n[=a]ranga orange tree. The o- in F. orange is due to confusion with or gold, L. aurum, because the orange resembles gold in color.]
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The fruit of a tree of the genus Citrus ( Citrus Aurantium). It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.
Note: There are numerous varieties of oranges; as, the bitter orange, which is supposed to be the original stock; the navel orange, which has the rudiment of a second orange imbedded in the top of the fruit; the blood orange, with a reddish juice; and the horned orange, in which the carpels are partly separated.
(Bot.) The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.
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The color of an orange; reddish yellow.
Mandarin orange. See Mandarin.
Mock orange (Bot.), any species of shrubs of the genus Philadelphus, which have whitish and often fragrant blossoms.
Native orange, or Orange thorn (Bot.), an Australian shrub ( Citriobatus parviflorus); also, its edible yellow berries.
Orange bird (Zo["o]l.), a tanager of Jamaica ( Tanagra zena); -- so called from its bright orange breast.
Orange cowry (Zo["o]l.), a large, handsome cowry ( Cypr[ae]a aurantia), highly valued by collectors of shells on account of its rarity.
Orange grass (Bot.), an inconspicuous annual American plant ( Hypericum Sarothra), having minute, deep yellow flowers.
Orange oil (Chem.), an oily, terpenelike substance obtained from orange rind, and distinct from neroli oil, which is obtained from the flowers.
Orange pekoe, a kind of black tea.
Orange pippin, an orange-colored apple with acid flavor.
Quito orange, the orangelike fruit of a shrubby species of nightshade ( Solanum Quitoense), native in Quito.
Orange scale (Zo["o]l.) any species of scale insects which infests orange trees; especially, the purple scale ( Mytilaspis citricola), the long scale ( Mytilaspis Gloveri), and the red scale ( Aspidiotus Aurantii).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A citrus tree of the species ''Citrus × aurantium'', also called ''Citrus aurantium''. 2 A citrus tree of the species ''Citrus limetta''. 3 The fruit of these species.
WordNet
n. any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock [syn: sour orange, Seville orange, bitter orange tree, bigarade, marmalade orange, Citrus aurantium]
highly acidic orange used especially in marmalade [syn: Seville orange, sour orange]
Wikipedia
Bitter orange, Seville orange, sour orange, bigarade orange, or marmalade orange refers to a citrus tree (Citrus × aurantium) and its fruit.
It is a hybrid between Citrus maxima (pomelo) and Citrus reticulata (mandarin). Many varieties of bitter orange are used for their essential oil, and are found in perfume, used as a flavoring or as a solvent. The Seville orange variety is used in the production of marmalade.
Bitter orange is also employed in herbal medicine as a stimulant and appetite suppressant, due to its active ingredient, synephrine. Bitter orange supplements have been linked to a number of serious side effects and deaths, and consumer groups advocate that people avoid using the fruit medically.
Usage examples of "bitter orange".
He would sometimes walk through the adult stacks, looking at the thousands of volumes and imagining a world of lives inside each one, the way he sometimes walked along his street in the burning smoke-hazed twilight of a late-October afternoon, the sun only a bitter orange line on the horizon, imagining the lives going on behind all the windows - people laughing or arguing or arranging flowers or feeding kids or pets or their own faces while they watched the boobtube.
On the western horizon, the only remnant of the sun was a bitter orange line that illuminated the dark earth below not at all.
The sunset had faded to a bitter orange line on the western horizon, and the little yard was dark.
They sold us foie gras, crackers, a couple of bottles of chilled champagne, six kinds of cheese and a hell of a lot of nuts-I took one of everything-more crackers, a bag of ice, frozen rumaki hors d'oeuvres, a fifth of an ancient brandy that cost twenty-five bucks, a matching fifth of Cherry Heering for Leslie, six packs of beer and Bitter Orange .
Darlutheene said indulgently, pouring more of her fourth-best bitter orange generously.
But at night, with the temperatures down in the 20's, with sunset a bitter orange line in the west and thousands of stars already pricking coldly through the firmament overhead, he could measure the road's progress alone and undisturbed.
By 7:00 the panoply of colors on the horizon has shrunk to a bitter orange line on the western horizon, as if furnace fires had been banked beyond the edge of the world.
He lucked into a bottle of Darvons, and swallowed two with a glass of bitter orange juice from the kitchen.