1A tangerine of a hardy loose-skinned variety, originally grown in Japan.
‘They are still grown around the Mediterranean, but have been partly ousted in commerce by the satsumas and clementines.’
‘As regards fruit, I'm always tucking into clementines, satsumas, whatever they're called at the moment.’
‘Other recent arrivals on supermarket shelves include an onion sweet enough to be eaten like an apple, miniature melons and the gratsuma - a cross between a grapefruit and a satsuma.’
‘The National School Fruit Scheme involves giving each child between the ages of four and six years a piece of fruit daily - an apple, a satsuma or a banana.’
‘Both satsuma and tangerine are types of mandarin, a group of citrus with brightly colored pulp and easy-to-peel skins.’
‘On any particular morning the bananas and satsumas in the fruit bowl will vie for my attention, and the rice and the pasta fight it out at dinner that evening.’
‘Selina's face brightened as she exchanged one of her apples for one of the already peeled satsumas.’
‘I realised that the only food I had eaten today was a bag of crisps and three satsumas!’
‘The annuals were as much part of Christmas Day as satsumas or chocolate money.’
‘Snack on satsumas or take a vitamin supplement each morning!’
‘In general I confine myself to extra satsumas and nuts, although I do find it difficult to resist those giant chocolate Brazils.’
‘The best I could come up with was one battered and bruised pack of tiny satsumas and I refused to buy that because the shopkeeper wouldn't reduce the price.’
‘To make a change from satsumas and buckets of chocolates this Christmas, try the youngsters with astronaut food.’
‘In our house Santa delivers stockings to the bedrooms, in which everything, even a satsuma, is individually wrapped, with lots of Sellotape.’
‘Reaching into his own lunch bag, he lightly tossed a satsuma her way.’
‘Only the seriously deluded could believe that a burger and chips dinner will be less cholesterol-packed if you round it off with a small satsuma.’
‘It is seedless unless you plant some other types of citrus nearby, and has a more tangy taste than the satsuma.’
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(also Satsuma, Satsuma ware)
mass nounJapanese pottery from Satsuma, ranging from simple 17th-century earthenware to later work made for export to Europe, often elaborately painted, with a crackled cream-coloured glaze.
‘Most of the Kyoto Satsuma ware was produced for export to Western countries.’
Origen
Late 19th century named after the province Satsuma.
A former province of south-western Japan. It comprised the major part of the south-western peninsula of Kyushu island, also known as the Satsuma Peninsula.
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