Why doesn't an orange have a proper name?!
Answers: They could have called it a lemon and called a lemon a yellow
the COLOR orange was named after the fruit. So the orange does have a proper name (besides its latin name). It's the shade between red and yellow that didn't have a name. Before discovering the fruit we just called that color yellow-red (really the Olde English equivalent) in English.
Citrus sinensis
orange is the proper name or orangu means the same
cos it was invented by my mother-in-law. lol
Perhaps the Orange had the name first, and when people were searching for a good name for the lovely colour they had created by mixing red and yellow they pinched the name for the colour.
I'm sure that isn't true - I'm just rambling again
It does, it's an orange.
'Cause people were stupid back when oranges came into existence.
Bum, you have way too much time on your hands.
Reddish yellow citrus fruit
They do have proper names... Valencia orange, Navel orange, Moro (blood) orange, and Cara Cara orange
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A grapefruit is yellow too.