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# orange

«orange» in Mova's school dictionary: **a round, juicy fruit with a thick skin; it grows on a tree** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (orange, oranges); adjective (orange)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An orange is a round, juicy fruit with a thick skin; it grows on a tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#m1)

2) Orange is a color between red and yellow, like the color of carrots and pumpkins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a fruit counted (picked, sold, put in sacks) or a color word; in art, orange is made by mixing red and yellow; oranges give vitamin C; phrases «orange juice», «peel an orange»

### examples

- They harvest 65 sacks of oranges each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x1)
- She bought 12 oranges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x2)
- 25 of the sacks are of ripe oranges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x3)
- He has 6 orange marbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x4)
- I peeled an orange and shared it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x5)
- Mix red and yellow to make orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x6)
- Pumpkins are orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x7)
- A glass of orange juice comes with breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x8)
- The sky turned orange at sunset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x9)
- An orange has about 10 segments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x10)
- He hardly had courage to open his last orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#x11)

### note

A thing counted, or a kind (color). Trap: «orange» before another noun is a color, not the fruit. Use «an orange», not «a orange». Nothing rhymes well with «orange» — a fun fact.

### In the corpora

- [Vivid example: at Christmas in Dublin, Auntie Siobhan hands Mum a lumpy orange jumper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/37-sorry-white-lies-and-because-i-said-so/2/)
- [Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/81-big-cats-house-lions-and-tigers/11/)
- [In some caves dwarf crocodiles have turned orange, possibly from living among bat droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/8/)
- [Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/8/)
- [Oranges came from Asia and spread along trade routes; in English the colour orange was named after the fruit.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/289-food-from-around-the-world-how-crops-travelled-the-globe/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «orange» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.