🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

संतरा

Pronunciation / Transliteration: santra

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Clementine/ˈklɛm.ən.taɪn/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"मुझे क्लेमेंटाइन खाना बहुत पसंद है।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small variety of Mediterranean citrus fruit, being a hybrid between a mandarin orange and a sweet orange.

    "She peeled a sweet clementine for her afternoon snack."
  2. 2

    The evergreen tree that produces these small, easily peeled citrus fruits.

    "The orchard is filled with rows of flourishing clementine trees bearing bright orange fruits."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French 'clémentine', named after Father Clément Rodier, a French missionary in Algeria who accidentally bred the citrus hybrid in the late 19th century. The name ultimately traces back to the Latin 'Clementius', meaning merciful or mild.

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