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  1. noun Any of several southeast Asian evergreen trees of the genus Citrus, widely cultivated in warm regions and having fragrant white flowers and round fruit with a yellowish or reddish rind and a sectioned, pulpy interior, especially C. sinensis, the sweet orange, and C. aurantium, the Seville or sour orange.
  2. noun The fruit of any of these trees, having a sweetish, acidic juice.
  3. noun Any of several similar plants, such as the Osage orange and the mock orange.
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  1. Middle English, from Old French pume orenge, translation and alteration (influenced by Orenge, Orange, a town in France) of Old Italian melarancio : mela, fruit + arancio, orange tree (alteration of Arabic nāranj, from Persian nārang, from Sanskrit nāraṅgaḥ, possibly of Dravidian origin).

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  1. Formerly also orenge; from Middle English orenge (= Dutch oranje = German orange), from Old French orenge, French orange (= Provencal orange), an accommodation form (simulating or, from Latin aurum, gold, in allusion to the yellow fruit) for *arenge, from Italian arancia, feminine, arancio, masculine (Middle Latin arangia, also accommodation aurantia, New Latin aurantum, simulating Latin aurum, gold), orig. with initial n, as in Italian dial. naranza, naranz = Spanish naranja = Portuguese laranja (with orig. n changed to l, apparently in simulation of the def. art.) = Walloon neranze = Middle Greek νεράντζιον, New Greek νεράντζι, from Arabic nāranj = Hindustani nārangī, narangī = Pali nārango = late Sanskrit nāranga, nāgaranga, apparently from Persian nāranj, nārinj, nārang, an orange; cf. Persian nār, a pomegranate. Cf. lemon and lime, also of Persian origin.
 

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