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/klˈɛməntˌaɪn/ /klˈɛməntˌin/ Listen

Clementine

noun

A variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa. Synonym: clementine tree.

A mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds.

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"Clementine" Quotes from Famous Books

... Espard, Jeanne-Clementine-Athenais de Blamont-Chauvry, Marquise d' The Commission in Lunacy Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Letters of Two Brides Another Study of Woman The Gondreville Mystery The Secrets of a Princess A Daughter of ...

— Lost Illusions • Honore De Balzac

... but to mention the curious theory of Bauer and the Tubingen school. It is now established by recent theological criticism that the Clementine writings were the work of some member or members of the Elkesaites, a sect of the Ebionites, and that they were written at Rome somewhere in the third century. The Elkessaeans or Elkesaites founded their creed on a book called Elkesai, which ...

— Simon Magus • George Robert Stow Mead

... in reward for his perfect goodness, was admitted to a share in the privileges of this Pneuma (Reville, p. 39). Here, as M. Reville observes, though a Gnostic idea is adopted, Jesus is nevertheless viewed as ascending humanity, and not as descending divinity. The author of the "Clementine Homilies" advances a step farther, and clearly assumes the pre-existence of Jesus, who, in his opinion, was the pure, primitive man, successively incarnate in Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and finally ...

— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske

Words linked to "Clementine" : mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, clementine tree, Citrus reticulata, mandarin