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  • noun Plural form of tangelo.

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Examples

  • We bought a bag of Minneola tangelos and two kinds of dates.

    Finding Local Food on the California Roadside « Dyepot, Teapot 2010

  • At Schacht's grove on Florida's east coast, the smell of sweet juice fills the air as he packs fat honeybell tangelos, navel oranges and ruby red grapefruit into boxes for customers across the United States.

    Incurable bacteria a worse threat than cold to citrus groves 2011

  • Too little rain makes for smaller oranges, grapefruits, tangerines and tangelos in Florida, said Louis Schacht, manager of Schacht Groves in Vero Beach, right in the middle of the state's most-drought afflicted pockets.

    Farmers across the South contend with drought 2010

  • Too little rain makes for smaller oranges, grapefruits, tangerines and tangelos in Florida, said Louis Schacht, manager of Schacht Groves in Vero Beach, right in the middle of the state's most-drought afflicted pockets.

    Southern Farmers Struggle With Devastating Drought AP 2010

  • “I like dinosaur chicken nuggets, pizza sticks, tangelos, and organic juice boxes.”

    Demon From The Dark Kresley Cole 2010

  • We branched out, bought plums and tangelos and pears.

    The Perimeter 2009

  •   We branched out, bought plums and tangelos and pears.

    The Perimeter 2009

  • As late winter became spring, I continued to buy my apples and pears, apricots and tangelos; after the almost-intimacy of our earlier conversations, we stayed carefully focused on our business relationship: salesman and customer; fruit purveyor, fruit eater.

    Jane Barowitz: My Taliban Fruit Man 2009

  • No one worried that crossing a tangerine and a grapefruit would unleash a devastating plague of tangelos.

    Splashing In The Gene Pool 2008

  • What makes genetic engineering an improvement on old-fashioned crossbreeding is the promise of being able to manipulate specific genes directly-to break down tangerines and grapefruits into their constituent characteristics and combine them to make an infinitude of tangelos.

    Splashing In The Gene Pool 2008

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