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

[ Syn: mandarin orange , mandarin orange tree , citrus reticulata ]

a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

any high government official or bureaucrat

a high public official of imperial China

a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China

[ Syn: mandarin orange ]

the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

[ Syn: mandarin , mandarin chinese , mandarin dialect , beijing dialect ]