blood orange

noun

any of various sweet oranges having a dark-red pulp.

Origin of blood orange

First recorded in 1850–55

Words Nearby blood orange

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How to use blood orange in a sentence

Now, slices of her slab cakes sell out in minutes, and people drive across Los Angeles for whole cakes in blood orange and carrot, crowned with minimalist flourishes of buttercream and delicate edible flower petals.
The Pastry Revolution Will Be Instagrammed | Meghan McCarron | April 12, 2021 | Eater
Salt, spice, acidity, herbs, floral essences and tea soften sweeter flavors like milk chocolate and render others, like blood orange, almost savory.
This Valentine’s Day, reach for a better box of chocolates | Daniela Galarza | January 31, 2021 | Washington Post
Champagne Royale Take the most delicious fruit in season, such as blood orange, ripe pears or mandarins.
Celeb Chefs' Holiday Cocktails | Jacquelynn D. Powers | November 19, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
Honey helps job interviews go down easy, and tangy blood orange sharpens all the ideas you bring to the table.
Opportunities Abound with the Barack-to-Work | Daily Beast Promotions | October 14, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
Add the blood orange segments, pomegranate seeds, and fennel fronds and toss gently to mix.
Shaved Fennel, Roasted Potatoes | The Daily Beast | November 25, 2008 | THE DAILY BEAST

His colour was curiously attractive, while partly tropical; it reminded one vaguely of a blood-orange.
The Wisdom of Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton
Outside, by the cracked pool, it was coming on slow twilight and that magic, tropical blood-orange sky like a swirl of sorbet.
Makers | Cory Doctorow
The field is a rich shade of red verging toward the hue of a blood orange, and again gleaming with far deeper shades.
Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern | Rosa Belle Holt
Like the passing of a shutter across a calcium light: now blinding white, now blood-orange.
Dust of the Desert | Robert Welles Ritchie

British Dictionary definitions for blood orange

blood orange

noun

a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe

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