[Swedish mandarin (apelsin) mandarin (orange), ultimately from Portuguese mandarim mandarin; perhaps from the color of a mandarin's robes] a small spiny orange tree (Citrus reticulata) of southeastern Asia with yellow to reddish-orange loose-rinded fruits; also; a tree (as the satsuma) developed in cultivation from the mandarin by artificial selection or hybridization; the fruit of a mandarin.
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; SYN. mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata.
A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China; SYN. mandarin orange.

ETYM Portu. mandarim, from Malay mantrî minister of state, prop. a Hind. word, from Skr. mantrin a counselor, manira a counsel, man to think.
1. A high public official of the Chinese Empire.
2. A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group.
3. Any high government official or bureaucrat.
The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China; Also called: Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect.
Higher public official of Chinese empire; chief dialect of China; small Chinese orange.
Standard form of the Chinese language. Historically it derives from the language spoken by mandarins, Chinese imperial officials, from the 7th century onward. It is used by 70% of the population and taught in schools of the People’s Republic of China.
Variety of the tangerine orange Citrus reticulata.

1. Of, relating to, or typical of a mandarin
2. Marked by polished ornate complexity of language