clementine (redirected from Clementines)

clem·en·tine  (klmn-tn, -tn)

n.

A deep red-orange, often seedless mandarin orange.

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[French clémentine, perhaps after Père Clément (fl. 1902), French missionary in Africa.]

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clementine

Noun

a citrus fruit resembling a tangerine [French]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	clementine - a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa clementine tree Citrus reticulata, mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree - 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
	2.	clementine - a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds mandarin orange, mandarin - a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

Translations

clementine [ˈklɛməntaɪn] n → clémentine f