  Multi-orientable group field theory (GFT) has been introduced in A. Tanasa,
J. Phys. A 45 (2012) 165401, arXiv:1109.0694, as a quantum field theoretical
simplification of GFT, which retains a larger class of tensor graphs than the
colored one. In this paper we define the associated multi-orientable
identically independent distributed multi-orientable tensor model and we derive
its 1/N expansion. In order to obtain this result, a partial classification of
general tensor graphs is performed and the combinatorial notion of jacket is
extended to the multi-orientable graphs. We prove that the leading sector is
given, as in the case of colored models, by the so-called melon graphs.
