Definition of "tangelo" []

• A hybrid citrus tree derived from grapefruit and tangerine, having aromatic fruit with a thin, smooth, moderately loose rind. (noun)
• The fruit of this tree. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Come splash when the moon is a tangelo and the Pisces pawn has knocked the Aries queen off the boardwalk."
• "He might be thinking about the well-being of his young wife, or the realities of imprisonment, or his prostate slowly growing to the size of a tangelo."
• "But what on earth is a tangelo – something they eat in Quebec?"