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< Clemente, Roberto Walker
Clement of Alexandria, Saint >
clem·en·tine
(kl
m
n-t
n
, -t
n
)
KEY
NOUN:
A deep red-orange, often seedless mandarin orange.
ETYMOLOGY:
French
clémentine
, perhaps after Père
Clément
(fl. 1902), French missionary in Africa
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