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/klˈɛməntˌaɪn/ /klˈɛməntˌin/ Listen

Clementine

noun

A variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa. Synonym: clementine tree.

A mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds.

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"Clementine" Quotes from Famous Books

... to erect a monument to Clement XIV. This pope was a famous man; he was the collector of the Clementine Museum, the author of the elegant letters known by his family name of Ganganelli, and, above all, he was the suppressor of the Jesuits. While Canova felt the honor that was thus offered him he also thought himself ...

— A History of Art for Beginners and Students - Painting, Sculpture, Architecture • Clara Erskine Clement

... bold confidence, have been an official inspectress in person, and to whose easy care or, more particularly, expert sensibility and candour of sympathy and curiosity, our flock was freely confided. If she wasn't Honorine she was Clementine or Augustine—which is a trifle; since what I thus recover, in any case, of these brushings of the strange Parisian dew, is those communities of contemplation that made us most hang about the jewellers' windows in the Palais Royal and the public playbills of the theatres on the Boulevard. ...

— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James

Words linked to "Clementine" : mandarin orange, Citrus reticulata, mandarin, mandarin orange tree