[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. + prikaži više