orangey Definition

orange
noun

1. A round citrus fruit with a tough reddish-yellow outer rind or peel enclosing membranous segments filled with sweet or sharp-tasting juicy flesh that is rich in vitamin C. The sweet orange is eaten raw or squeezed for its juice, and the bitter Seville orange or bitter orange is used to make marmalade.
2. The evergreen tree, cultivated in most subtropical regions, that bears this fruit and also orange blossom.
3. Any of various similar trees or plants, or their fruits.
4. A reddish-yellow colour like that of the skin of an orange.

Thesaurus: red-yellow, tangerine, peach, coral, salmon.
5. A pigment or dye of this colour.
6. An orange-flavoured drink.

adj

1. Orange-coloured.

Thesaurus: reddish, glowing, ochreous.
2. Orange-flavoured.

Derivative: orangey
adj

Derivative: orangish
adj

Etymology: 14c: ultimately from Sanskrit naranga.

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orangey
orangish orange