mandarin

(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. Synonyms: mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata.

(noun) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group.

(noun) any high government official or bureaucrat.

(noun) a high public official of imperial China.

(noun) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China. Synonyms: mandarin orange.

(noun) the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China. Synonyms: Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect.