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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow
Synonyms:
orange; orangeness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("orangeness" is a kind of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "orangeness"):
reddish orange (an orange color closer to red than to yellow)
Derivation:
orange (of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange)