tangerine vs mandarin

tangerine and mandarin both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tangerine	Yes	Yes	No	No
mandarin	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mandarin is a hypernym of tangerine; that is, mandarin is a word with a broader meaning than tangerine:

tangerine: any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
mandarin: a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

Other hypernyms of tangerine include mandarin orange.

As nouns, mandarin is a hypernym of tangerine; that is, mandarin is a word with a broader meaning than tangerine:

tangerine: a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a 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

Other hypernyms of tangerine include Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree.

tangerine (noun)	mandarin (noun)
a reddish to vivid orange color	a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa	a high public official of imperial China
a variety of mandarin orange, known in Telugu and Portugal as kamala kaya and in Australia as a mandarin	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

tangerine (adjective)	mandarin (adjective)
of a strong reddish orange color