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MANDARIN ORANGE TREE

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Meaning:

Shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia

Synonyms:

Citrus reticulata; mandarin; mandarin orange; mandarin orange tree

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mandarin orange tree" is a kind of...):

citrus; citrus tree (any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds)

Meronyms (parts of "mandarin orange tree"):

mandarin; mandarin orange (a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mandarin orange tree"):

tangerine; tangerine tree (a variety of mandarin orange)

clementine; clementine tree (a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa)

satsuma; satsuma tree (a variety of mandarin orange)

Holonyms ("mandarin orange tree" is a member of...):

genus Citrus (orange; lemon; lime; etc.)

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