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Definition of Orangy
1. resembling or suggestive of an orange [adj -ANGIER, -ANGIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orangy
Literary usage of Orangy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Botanical Dictionary: Comprising the Names, History, and Culture of by Joseph Paxton (1868)
"... and orangy- scarlet flowers. To grow them well, they require a soil composed
of sandy loam and a little pent, mixed with reduced rubbish of bricks, &c. ..."
2. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"Corolla tubular, with a 5-parted spreading limb : tube bluntly 5 -angular, of a
deep orangy red, thickly clothed with short stiff hairs : upper segment of ..."
3. The British Flower Garden, (series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures by Robert Sweet (1833)
"Corolla tubular, with a 5-parted spreading limb : tube bluntly 5-angular, of a
deep orangy red, thickly clothed with short stiff hairs : upper segment of ..."
4. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1901)
"But the most remarkable example of sensibility found in sea-weeds occurs in the
case of the red colouring matter contained in orangy red, red, pink, ..."
5. Teach Me More Italian by Judy Mahoney (1999)
"He has coal black eyes An orangy carrot nose Two funny stick-like arms And a
snowy overcoat. Have you guessed his name Or do you need a clue? ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1904)
"The rays of the setting sun penetrated through the dense foliage and fell in
orangy light upon the path which winds by the side of a half-hidden streamlet. ..."
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