mandarin

n 1: 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}]

2: a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

3: any high government official or bureaucrat

4: a high public official of the Chinese Empire

5: a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China

[syn: {mandarin orange}]

6: 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}]