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Orange

Meanings of Orange:

• Orange, the fruit of the orange tree
• Orange, a color between red and yellow
• Orange, a telecommunications company
  • Orange Romania - the Romanian branch of this company
• Cities in respectively
  • Australia
  • France
  • California
  • Connecticut
  • Massachusetts
  • Ohio
  • Texas, and
  • Virginia.
• Orange County, the name of a county in each of several states
• House of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands)
• The Orange Order, a Protestant fraternal organization (most active in the U.K and Canada)
• Orange River, South Africa
• Orange Park, Florida
• Orange Free State, South Africa
• Republic of Orange, a micronation or imaginary state
• Orange, a mountain bike manufacturer

The word orange is an oft-cursed word of poets, having no rhyming partner in English until the advent of quorange (though door-hinge is a close approximation). "Grorange" (a colour of slime made by mixing orange and green slime) did appear in one novelization of the Super Mario Brothers Nintendo games. Since "orange" refers to a species of plant, anyone could hypothetically coin a new rhyme by creating a new hybrid with an orange and another species of citrus fruit and naming it (for example, a hybrid of a kumquat and an orange could be called a "korange"). "Rhymes with Orange", in reference to this famous unrhymeability, has been used as the name of a comic strip.

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