mandarins

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 AsiaSynonyms: Citrus reticulata, mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree

2. a member of an elite intellectual or cultural groupSynonyms: mandarin

3. any high government official or bureaucratSynonyms: mandarin

4. a high public official of imperial ChinaSynonyms: mandarin

5. a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of ChinaSynonyms: mandarin, mandarin orange

6. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of ChinaSynonyms: Beijing dialect, Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect