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# orange

noun (orange, oranges); adjective (orange)

«orange» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An orange is a round, juicy fruit with a thick skin; it grows on a tree. [tree →](https://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/#m2)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «orange» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/orange/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«orange» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/orange.html) on Mova free.