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Definition of Mandarin orange tree

1. Noun. 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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandarin Orange Tree

Literary usage of Mandarin orange tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Citrus Fruits and Their Culture by H. Harold Hume (1911)
"King mandarin orange tree in Fruit. highly colored as Dancy, glossy; rind smooth, very -:iiB, 1-16 of an inch or slightly more in thickness; oil cells flust ..."

2. Trees and Tree-planting by James Sanks Brisbin (1888)
"It produces fruit the pulp of which is of a deep-yellow color, sub-acid, soft and melting. Mandarin orange-tree. This tree is indigenous to China ..."

3. The Green-house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and by John Claudius Loudon (1825)
"C. nobilis, Mandarin Orange-tree, AR 608, a tree introduced from China in 1805, and flowering ... C. nobilis minor, smaller Mandarin Orange-tree, BR 211. ..."

4. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"Far-famed Golden-fruited, or Mandarin Orange-tree, with flattened, rough, deep-orange-coloured fruit, and a thin rind, which separates spontaneously from ..."

5. The Green-house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and by John Claudius Loudon (1825)
"C. nobilis, Mandarin Orange-tree, AR 608, a tree introduced from China in 1805, and flowering ... C. nobilis minor, smaller Mandarin Orange-tree, BR 211. ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"In medicine it is almost exclusively employed as a flavoring or perfuming ingredient of medical compounds. Mandarin oil. The mandarin orange tree is a ..."

7. The Cultivated Oranges and Lemons, Etc. of India and Ceylon: With Researches by Emanuel Bonavia (1888)
"It does not in the least resemble the mandarin orange tree, neither in leaf, flower, nor fruit. The leaves, as given in the plate, are immense, ..."

8. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1904)
"... and Distribution of some Organic Substances in the mandarin orange tree. ... acidity in the mandarin orange tree gets less from the leaf to the wood. ..."

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