which came first...the orange fruit or the color orange?
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Actually, it was the fruit. It originated in China and worked its way around the world until it was introduced in Europe, where its name was derived from the Persian word for the fruit. The town of Orange in France was also named for the fruit and the color was derived from the color of the skin.
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Well it's like lemons are called lemons, and that is also a color. It could be whoever brought oranges to this country or even Europe called them oranges because of the color. Not knowing what they were at the time. Just made it easier to describe them. you know those orange things. they know the color, but not the fruit. So that could be how they were named. Hope this hellps you.
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apparently it's orange, purple, silver n month, but on QI I think they found a rhyme for orange.\n\nI found a source with a couple of others:
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A form of muation a orange is known for could have made your body available.
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You mean ...what came first...Chicken or Egg...?
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The fruit came first.\n\nRead up!
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The plant or the fruit? That's the trick.
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They like to eat oranges.  Very juicy.
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Visible orange light has a wavelength of about 590 nm.\n\nWith natural colouring materials such as paints or crayons, orange is a secondary colour that can be derived from primary colours by mixing red (or more accurately, magenta) and yellow.\n\nOrange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families.  Brown is actually on the orange part (orange + grey) of the colour spectrum.\n\nOrange is both a noun and an adjective in the English language. Both refer primarily to the orange fruit and the color orange, but have many other derivative meanings. Interestingly, the color was referred to (in Old English, before the English-speaking world was exposed to the fruit) as geoluhread, which transliterates into Modern English as yellow-red or yellored (both pronounced the same).\n\n— Color coordinates — \nHex triplet #CC5500 \nRGBB (r, g, b) (204, 85, 0) \nCMYKH (c, m, y, k) (0, 58, 100, 20) \nHSV (h, s, v) (25°, 100%, 80%)
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don;t compare apple and orange\nnothing similar between them except they are both languages
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Edible bananas originated in the Indo-Malaysian region reaching to northern Australia. Bananas and plantains are today grown in every humid tropical region and constitute the 4th largest fruit crop of the world. World production is estimated to be 28 million tons—65% from Latin America, 27 % from Southeast Asia, and 7 % from Africa.India is the leading banana producer in Asia.\n\nThe orange is cultivated over thousands of years now. It is supposed to originate from South- and indo-China.Brazil produces more oranges than any other country, followed by the United States, China, Spain and Mexico.
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If you mean "citrus" fruit:\n\nhttp://www.plantpathology.tamu.edu/Texlabn/fruits/Citrus/citrus.html\nhttp://plantpathology.tamu.edu/Texlab/Fruit/citrus/citrus.asp\nhttp://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/diseases/az1154/\nhttp://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_CH081
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Orange—specifically, sweet orange—refers to the citrus tree Citrus sinensis and its fruit. The orange is a hybrid of ancient cultivated origin, possibly between pomelo (Citrus maxima) and tangerine (Citrus reticulata). It is a small tree, growing to about 10 m tall, with thorny shoots and evergreen leaves 4-10 cm long. The word "orange" comes from Sanskrit "narang".\nSee an orange in\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fruit)\n\nTangerine (Citrus reticulata) is an orange or red colored citrus fruit, a type of mandarin orange.\n\nThey are slightly smaller than oranges, and their skin peels off more easily. Good quality tangerines will be firm to slightly soft, heavy for their size and pebbly-skinned with no deep grooves. Their flavor is often more sour and more sweet than that of an orange. The Honey Tangerine, which was originally called a murcott, is very sweet as its name suggests. One of the most popular kind is the Dancy Tangerine variety. Another popular kind is the Fairchild Tangerine.\n\n\nSee tangerine in\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine
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Depends.  \nIf it is one apple plus one orange, the answer could be "1 plus 1".\nIt could also be 2 as in 2 fruit.
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pom juice.  i seen it on oprah  its from the pomagrante(spelling wrong i'm sure) fruit
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Purple.\n\n\n\nwanna banana?
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There is only one word that rhymes with orange in the English language. It's that obscure biological term "sporange" a variant of the word "sporangium" which is a plant or fungal structure producing and containing spores.\n By the way,just an FYI,  nothing rhymes with "silver," "purple" or "month".