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.
- Indo-European root: kap-
- Indo-European root: kaput-
- Indo-European root: kar-
- Indo-European root: kas-
- Indo-European root: kat-
- Indo-European root: kau-
- Indo-European root: kaə-id-
- Indo-European root: ked-
- Indo-European root: keg-
- Indo-European root: kei-
- Indo-European root: keiə-
- Indo-European root: kekw-
- Indo-European root: kel-
- Indo-European root: kel-
- Indo-European root: kelə-
- Indo-European root: kelə-
- Indo-European root: ken-
- Indo-European root: kenk-
- Indo-European root: kens-
- Indo-European root: kent-
- Indo-European root: ker-
- Indo-European root: ker-
- Indo-European root: ker-
- Indo-European root: kerd-
- Indo-European root: kerp-