Noun | 1. | mandarin - 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 - a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China Synonyms: mandarin orange | |
6. | Mandarin - the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China |