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The Tangerine (Citrus reticulata) is an orange-colored citrus fruit, a type of mandarin orange.
They are slightly smaller in size than oranges, and their skin peels off more easily. Their flavour is less sour and more neutral than that of an orange. The Honey Tangerine is a variety noted for its sweetness.
The flavour is commonly used in bottle juice or soft drinks in North America.
The number of seeds in each segment (carpel) varies greatly.
Historically the name tangerine comes from Tangier, Morocco, the port from which the first tangerines were shipped to Europe. The adjective tangerine, from Tangier or Tanger, was already an English word (first recorded in 1710).
Tangerine is also a place in Orange County, Florida. Tangerine is also the name of a novel written by Edward Bloor and the name of a song from the Led Zeppelin III album.
See also
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