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mandarin |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mandarin \Man`da*rin"\, n. [Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantr[=i] minister of state, prop. a Hind. word fr Skr. mantrin a counselor, manira a counsel, man to think.] 1. A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam. 2. (Bot.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species ({Citrus nobilis}) From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mandarin n 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 [syn: {mandarin orange}, {mandarin orange tree}, {Citrus reticulata}] 2: a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group 3: any high government official or bureaucrat 4: a high public official of the Chinese Empire 5: a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China [syn: {mandarin orange}] 6: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China [syn: {Mandarin}, {Mandarin Chinese}, {Mandarin dialect}, {Beijing dialect}]
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