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mandarin vs tangerine tree

tangerine tree vs mandarin

mandarin and tangerine tree both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
mandarin Yes No No No
tangerine tree Yes No No No
As nouns, tangerine tree is a hyponym of mandarin; that is, tangerine tree is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mandarin:
  • mandarin: 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 tree: a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin
Other hyponyms of mandarin include tangerine, clementine, clementine tree, satsuma, satsuma tree.
mandarin (noun) tangerine tree (noun)
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin
a high public official of imperial China
any high government official or bureaucrat
a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
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
Difference between mandarin and tangerine tree

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