mandarin
Nouns
- (n) shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree,
- (n) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
- (n) any high government official or bureaucrat
- (n) a high public official of imperial China
- (n) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China mandarin orange,
- (n) the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China Beijing dialect, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect,