tan·ger·ine 
(tăn′jə-rēn, tănjə-rēn′)
(tăn′jə-rēn, tănjə-rēn′)n.
1. A widely cultivated variety of mandarin orange having deep red-orange fruit with easily separated segments.
2. A strong reddish orange to strong or vivid orange.
[Short for tangerine orange, after Tanger (Tangier), Morocco (the principal port from which the fruit was once shipped).]
tan′ger·ine adj.