Geoluread means "Yellow-Red". It is the colour orange. We used to call the colour "geoluread", but eventually changed it to "orange" after the fruit of the same name.
No, oranges are not named after the colour. The colour orange is actually named after the fruit.Before then, the colour orange was called geoluread (yellow-red).
Fruit oranges actually aren't named after the colour. That's a very common mistake people make.The colour orange is actually named after the fruit. Previously, the colour that we now recognise as orange was called geoluread.