🎨 A bright orange color 🍊 A sour orange tree

marmalade orange

6.9

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

noun

: naranja amarga

Gardeners often use the marmalade orange as grafting stock for sweet orange varieties.

Examples

Unlike sweet oranges, the marmalade orange produces fruit that is best suited for marmalades and other preserves.
The marmalade orange is excellent for making traditional preserves because of its tart flavor.
The marmalade orange tree thrives in warm climates.
I bought some marmalade oranges from the farmer's market.
Gardeners often use the marmalade orange as grafting stock for sweet orange varieties.
The marmalade orange is excellent for making traditional preserves because of its tart flavor.
Unlike sweet oranges, the marmalade orange produces fruit that is best suited for marmalades and other preserves.

Synonyms

Seville orange

vsmarmalade orange

1 6.5

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

is the general name for similar trees used broadly for cooking and grafting

sour orange

vsmarmalade orange

1 5.0

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

is the broader cooking and grafting term without noting acidity specifically

Citrus aurantium

vsmarmalade orange

Specialized

7.7

An orange tree with bitter fruit used for marmalade and flavoring

is the common cooking and grafting name rather than formal taxonomy

bitter orange

vsmarmalade orange

5.9

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

is the everyday term focusing on cooking and grafting use

bitter orange tree

vsmarmalade orange

6.3

A tree that produces sour oranges used for marmalade and grafting

is used more for the fruit's cooking use rather than just grafting

bigarade

vsmarmalade orange

Specialized

9.9

A type of orange tree that makes bitter fruit and is used to grow other orange trees

is the general name for these sour fruit trees used in preserves

Surface Forms

marmalade orange singular

marmalade oranges plural

Morphology

marmalade + orange

The meaning 'a bright, warm orange color resembling marmalade' is directly and transparently derivable from composing 'marmalade' (a citrus spread) with 'orange' (a color); this follows the common English pattern of using a familiar noun to specify a shade. Such descriptive color-noun combinations are cross-linguistically common and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Marmalade orange comes from the tree whose sour orange was used to make marmalade. Cooks used its bitter peel for 'preserves' and gardeners used the tree as 'grafting stock'.