is oranges are called oranges because their orange then why arent apples called reds?!

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Orange you glad apples aren't called reds? :)

The name of the color "orange" came from the color of the fruit. The fruit wasn't named after the color. Although the Orange is "actually" a berry...

The word orange is derived from Sanskrit ?????? nāra?ga? "orange tree."[9] The Sanskrit word is in turn borrowed from the Dravidian root for 'fragrant'. In Tamil, a bitter orange is known as ??????? 'Narandam', a sweet orange is called ??????? 'nagarugam' and ???? 'naari' means fragrance.[10] In Telugu the orange is called ????? 'naringa'. The Sanskrit word was borrowed into European languages through Persian ????? nārang, Armenian ?????? nārinj, Arabic ????? nāranj, (Spanish naranja and Portuguese laranja), Late Latin arangia, Italian arancia or arancio, and Old French orenge, in chronological order. The first appearance in English dates from the 14th century. The forms starting with n- are older, and this initial n- may have been mistaken as part of the indefinite article, in languages with articles ending with an -n sound (e.g., in French une norenge may have been taken as une orenge), a process called juncture loss. The name of the colour is derived from the fruit, first appearing in this sense in 1542.
Some languages have different words for the bitter and the sweet orange, such as Modern Greek nerantzi and portokali, respectively. Or in Persian, the words are narang and porteghal (Portugal), in the same order. The reason is that the sweet orange was brought from China or India to Europe during the 15th century by the Portuguese. For the same reason, some languages refer to it as Applesin (or variants), which means "Apple from China,"as does Puerto Ricans, calling it "una China" for the fruit or "jugo de china" for orange juice, while the bitter orange was introduced through Persia.
Several slavic languages use the variants pomaran? (Slovak), pomeran? (Czech), pomaran?a (Slovene), pomarańcza (Polish) from old French pomme d’orenge.[11]All citrus trees are of the single genus, Citrus, and remain largely interbreedable; that is, there is only one "superspecies" which includes grapefruits, lemons, limes, and oranges. Nevertheless, names have been given to the various members of the genus, oranges often being referred to as Citrus sinensis and Citrus aurantium. Fruits of all members of the genus Citrus are considered berries because they have many seeds, are fleshy, soft, and derive from a single ovary. An orange seed is called a pip. The white thread-like material attached to the inside of the peel is called pith.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(fru…

Because apples are red, green, yellow and sometimes green and red! That takes too long to say! Haha. And apple originated from the anglo-saxon word (German based language) ?ppel. Which could have come from many things before it! Languages are neat!

Finally someone who is asking legit questions on here. Why dont they just make tomatoes a vegetable, no one wants it to be a fruit, ad you sure wouldn't mix it with bananas and reds.

The color orange takes its current name from the fruit, not the other way around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(wor…

Not all apples are red.

There would be way too many homonyms.