mandarins

Meanings

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
• a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
• any high government official or bureaucrat
• a high public official of imperial China
• a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
• the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
• plural of mandarin

Synonyms

Beijing dialect, Citrus reticulata, Mandarin, mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree