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clem·en·tine  audio  (klmn-tn, -tn) 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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