MANDARIN

Definition of MANDARIN

  1. (noun)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
  2. (noun)a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
  3. (noun)any high government official or bureaucrat
  4. (noun)a high public official of imperial China
  5. (noun)a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China