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the only color named after the fruit, not the other way around
means A color between red and yellow on the spectrum, the warm hue of ripe citrus, autumn leaves, and sunsets; also the round citrus fruit that gave the color its name.
from The word traveled a long road westward: from Sanskrit 'naranga,' through Persian 'narang' and Arabic 'naranj,' into Old French 'orenge.' Along the way the initial 'n' quietly vanished — a phrase like 'a norange' was misheard as 'an orange,' a slip linguists call rebracketing. The fruit reached Europe first; only later, around the 16th century, did English speakers borrow its name to describe the color, which until then had been called something closer to 'yellow-red.'
- name origin
- English called it geoluread, meaning yellow-red, before
- hidden cousin
- oranges are a hybrid of pomelo and mandarin
- no rhyme
- famously dodges every word in the dictionary
- green truth
- ripe oranges stay green in warm tropical climates
orange county — county in california, usa with 3.2 million residents
orangemen's day — july 12 annual parade in belfast, northern ireland since 1795
orange river — 1,300km river forming border between south africa and namibia