Mandarin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Mandarin	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Mandarin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mandarin n 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 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 Synonym(s): mandarin, mandarin orange 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})