tangerine, tangerine tree

a variety of mandarin orange

• mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata — 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

• tangerine — any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa