clementine

See also: Clementine, clémentine, and Clémentine

English

Etymology

From French clémentine, from Clément +‎ -ine, named after French missionary Clément Rodier (1839–1904), who is said to have first bred it.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈklɛməntaɪn/, /ˈklɛməntiːn/

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Noun

clementine (plural clementines)

1. A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (C. × deliciosa) and a sweet orange (C. × sinensis).

   Hypernym: tangor

   Coordinate terms: mandarin, Seville orange, sweet orange, tangerine

Translations

citrus fruit

• Arabic: كَلِيمُونْتِين m (kalimuntin)

  Egyptian Arabic: كلامنتينة f (kalamantina), يوستفندية f (yustafandiya)

• Basque: klementina
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小柑橘 (xiǎogānjú)

• Danish: klementin c
• Esperanto: klementino
• Faroese: klementina
• Finnish: klementiini (fi)
• French: clémentine (fr) f
• Galician: clementina (gl) f
• German: Clementine (de) f
• Hindi: माल्टा (hi) m (mālṭā)
• Icelandic: klementína (is) f
• Italian: mandarancio (it) m, clementina (it) f, clementino m
• Japanese: クレメンタイン (kurementain)
• Korean: 클레멘타인 (keullementain)
• Maltese: klementina f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klementin m

  Nynorsk: klementin m

• Polish: klementynka (pl) f
• Portuguese: clementina f
• Romanian: clementină f
• Russian: Клементина (ru) f (Klementina)
• Swedish: clementin (sv) c
• Tagalog: kiat-kiat, kyat-kyat
• Turkish: klemantin
• Urdu: مالٹا (mālṭā)