mandarin

Noun
  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 (synset 112730661)
    is a type of: citrus, citrus tree - any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds
    subtypes:
    belongs to: genus citrus - orange; lemon; lime; etc.
    has: mandarin, mandarin orange - a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
    same as: citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree
  2. A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group (synset 110309524)
    is a type of: elitist - someone who believes in rule by an elite group
  3. Any high government official or bureaucrat (synset 110309427)
    is a type of: functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
  4. A high public official of imperial China (synset 110309332)
    is a type of: chinese - a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
  5. A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China (synset 107763927)
    is a type of: citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit - any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions
    subtypes:
    • clementine - a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds
    • satsuma - medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin
    • tangerine - any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa
    is a part of: citrus reticulata, mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree - 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
    same as: mandarin orange
  6. The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China (synset 106942870)
    is a type of: chinese - any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
    same as: beijing dialect, mandarin chinese, mandarin dialect

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