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English Dictionary: Mandarin by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Mandarin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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
    Synonym(s): mandarin, 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 imperial China
  5. a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
    Synonym(s): mandarin, mandarin orange
  6. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
    Synonym(s): Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mandarin \Man`da*rin"\, n. [Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantr[c6]
      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})
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