Clementine

This appealing, diminutive fruit is, according to most citrus specialists, a variety of the common mandarin, a name applied to a number of citrus fruits that have, among their distinguishing characteristics, a peel that is easily pulled from the flesh. Sometimes called zipper-skinned, such fruits were once referred to as kid-glove oranges, as it was said a lady could eat the fruit without soiling her hands. Confusingly, what the rest of the world has long known as mandarin is dubbed by many Americans tangerine. (The word, originally spelled Tangierine, means a native of Tangier; it has been used in English since the mid-nineteenth century to describe a mandarin originally from Morocco, but now refers to any number of mandarins.)