Satsuma

(satsə mä′, sat so̵̅o̅)

noun

  1. a variety of Japanese pottery
  2. ☆ a small, loose-skinned variety of orange, grown in Florida and Alabama

Origin: Jpn, after Satsuma, name of a province in S Kyushu, where pottery was made

See Satsuma in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A seedless mandarin orange native to Japan and the hardiest commercial citrus fruit.
  2. Satsuma A Japanese porcelain. Also called Satsuma ware.

Origin:

Origin: After Satsuma, a peninsula of southwest Kyushu, Japan

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