Blood-orange
any of various sweet oranges having a dark-red pulp.
Historical Examples
The Wisdom of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton
Dust of the Desert Robert Welles Ritchie
noun
a variety of orange all or part of the pulp of which is dark red when ripe
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