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Webster 1913 Edition

orange

or′ange

Adj.

Of or pertaining to an orange; of the color of an orange; reddish yellow;

as, an

orange ribbon

Webster 1828 Edition

Orange

OR'ANGE

Noun.

[L. aurantium; so named from aurum, gold, which the orange resembles in color.]

The fruit of a species of Citrus which grows in warm climates. The fruit is round and depressed; it has a rough rind, which when ripe is yellow. This contains a vesicular pulp inclosed in nine cells for seeds. The tree producing oranges grows to the height of ten or twelve feet and bears the same name.