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orange

orange

126 1.0
A round fruit with sweet juicy flesh and a bright skin you peel
  • noun
  • /ˈɔrɪndʒ/
translation icon : naranja
  • Do you want an apple or do you want an orange?
  • orange juice
  • peel an orange
  • orange slices

Yes, I got that orange and guava.

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Examples

  • Her white satin dress was ruined, her trayful of oranges scattered and lost in the garbage.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Every winter, he sent Ellen and me a crate of grapefruit and oranges from Boca Raton.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Do you want your orange?

  • Now tell me, when did you last see a woman cutting an orange?

  • Yeah, but oranges are more useful to me.

  • They're like really nice oranges, very pretty.

  • And once she said, "Have you been eating oranges?" which I adamantly denied.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Suppressing a smile, Cara reached for an orange and a square of paper towel.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • We also ate 19 pounds of apples, 13 pounds of oranges, and 4 pounds of strawberries.

    Academic text (1996)
  • For breakfast, I often enjoy a fresh orange with my toast.

Synonyms

sweet orange
vsorange
1.0

A round fruit with sweet juice and orange skin

focuses more on the rind's bright color and tough texture
Valencia orange
vsorange
2.1

A sweet orange that is very juicy and often grown for juice

is a general fruit description, not focused on commercial juice use
Jaffa orange
vsorange
4.2

A sweet orange with thick skin and almost no seeds

refers to the general fruit rather than a named thick skinned variety
bitter orange
vsorange
5.1

A small, very sour orange used to make marmalade and flavoring

describes a sweet juicy edible fruit rather than an acidic bitter kind

Idioms

A situation that is confusing and hard to understand

Compounds

91 1.0

A drink people make from oranges, often fresh or bottled

Agent Orange
  • Literature
9 7.6

A strong chemical sprayed in the Vietnam War to kill plants that caused long-term harm to people and land

5 1.4

The outer skin of an orange that adds flavor or becomes candy

4 2.8

A piece of land planted with orange trees to grow oranges

4 1.0

A tree that grows round sweet fruit you can eat

4 1.0

A fizzy sweet drink that tastes of orange

4 2.8

Thin outer skin of an orange grated to add flavor to food

2 8.7

A Protestant group in Northern Ireland that holds yearly parades celebrating union with Britain

A small sweet orange fruit that is easy to peel

1 2.1

The outer skin of an orange used to add flavor or decoration

1 2.2

A seedless orange with a small navel-like bump at the top

1 1.7

A color like orange but more red

A sweet spread made from oranges with small pieces of peel for bread or toast

1 7.7

A high quality black tea made from young tea leaves

Having the color of a ripe orange

1 2.0

A color that is between orange and red

cadmium orange
  • Specialized
1 9.3

An orange paint colour artists use that stays bright for a long time

A frozen concentrate of orange juice that you mix with water before drinking

A sweet alcoholic drink flavored with orange, used in cocktails and desserts

1 2.7

A brown color with a touch of orange

A thick frozen orange juice that you mix with water to drink

A bitter sour orange used to make marmalade and to grow other citrus trees

1 5.0

A tree that makes bitter oranges used as root for other orange trees and for marmalade

1 3.7

A very tart orange used in cooking and for making marmalade

1 8.5

A small tree with fragrant flowers and bitter, inedible fruit

A colour between yellow and orange, like a sunset

A color between yellow and orange, like a sunset

A small citrus tree from Italy with pear-shaped fruit whose oil flavors tea and perfumes

A tree that produces sour oranges used for marmalade and grafting

A small, very sour orange used to make marmalade and flavoring

A type of orange tree that produces small sour fruit and is used for grafting and marmalade

A light brown color with orange tones

An apple eaten fresh with yellow to orange skin that tastes sweet and smells nice

A bright orange color with a red tone like fire

4.9

A large sweet orange with easy to peel skin grown in Florida

A small tree from Southeast Asia that grows sweet, easy-to-peel orange fruit

A bright orange colour like the skin of the fruit

A bright warm orange color like marmalade used for clothes and paint

A small orange tree that makes sour fruit used for marmalade and to start new orange trees

methyl orange
  • Specialized
7.2

An orange dye used in labs that changes color to show if a liquid is acidic or basic

A bush or small tree with white, sweet smelling flowers grown in gardens

A sweet orange with thick skin and almost no seeds

native orange
  • Australian
9.9

A small Australian tree that has dark purple berries you can eat

A color like orange with a little red

An orange color that looks more red than yellow

8.3

A North American annual plant with yellow or orange flowers that grows in wet, acidic soil

orange bat
  • Australian
8.0

A bat with bright orange or yellow fur from northwest Australia

6.8

A small bat with orange fur that lives in forests in northwest Australia

A tall plant that lives for many years and has bright orange flowers that attract butterflies

A bog plant with spikes of orange-yellow flowers that grows in the southeastern United States

A fungus that grows on some mushrooms and makes them orange and bumpy

A low plant with bright orange-yellow flowers grown to decorate gardens

A low spreading plant with small orange-yellow flowers

A former province in central South Africa settled by Dutch farmers, renamed Free State in 1997

9.9

A small North American weed with thin stems, tiny leaves, and yellow flowers

Orange Group
  • Offensive
9.9

An armed Protestant group in Northern Ireland that attacks Catholics and their property

A small wild plant with bright orange flowers often seen as a weed

A bright orange cup-shaped growth on the ground that looks like an orange peel

orange tortrix
  • Specialized
9.0

A small moth whose caterpillars feed on oranges and damage fruit crops

A Protestant armed group in Northern Ireland known for attacks on Catholic people and opposition to peace talks

A bright yellow color with a small touch of orange

9.9

Small Australian orchid with loose groups of scented white flowers marked purple and orange

A bright red color with a strong orange tone

A large river in southern Africa that flows west to the Atlantic and forms part of the border with Namibia

A plant that lives for several years with drooping orange-yellow flowers that can make sheep sick

Toasted bread with butter, sugar, and grated orange peel

A plant that has orange flowers

About as big as an orange

Having the color of a ripe orange

9.9

A small tree with thorny branches and large inedible greenish-yellow fruit

An orange color with a hint of pink

A color between pink and orange

A tree that grows sweet oranges used for eating and making juice

How Ripe

overripe
7 3.0
orange
126 1.0
unripe
3 2.7

Surface Forms

orange singular
oranges plural

Etymology

Orange for the fruit came to English from an old Asian name nāraṅga, brought west by traders, so the sweet citrus kept its original name.