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ortanique|ɔːtəˈniːk| [f. orange n.1 + tangerine n. 2 + unique a.] A citrus fruit resembling a slightly flattened orange, produced by crossing an orange and a tangerine and cultivated in the West Indies. Also attrib.
1937Times 16 Feb. 11/2 Jamaica shows ortaniques, a cross between the usual orange and a tangerine. 1961Spectator 9 June 857 The West Indian experimental ortaniques, a cross between a tangerine and an orange. 1969‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass viii. 72 I've got to risk turning fifty acres of certain sugar into avocadoes, ortaniques and Bombay mangoes. 1969Harrod's Summer Food News 6/2 Canadian Ortanique Juice 19 oz. tin 3/3. |