1. (

• mandarin ,
• mandarin_orange ,
• mandarin_orange_tree ,
• Citrus_reticulata

) 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. (

• mandarin ,

) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group ;

3. (

• mandarin ,

) any high government official or bureaucrat ;

4. (

• mandarin

) a high public official of imperial China ;

5. (

• mandarin ,
• mandarin_orange

) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China ;

6. (

• Mandarin ,
• Mandarin_Chinese ,
• Mandarin_dialect ,
• Beijing_dialect

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