Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mandarin"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mandarin \Man`da*rin"\, n. [Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantr[=i]
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})
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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 [syn: {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 the Chinese Empire
5: a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China
[syn: {mandarin orange}]
6: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the
official language for all of China [syn: {Mandarin}, {Mandarin
Chinese}, {Mandarin dialect}, {Beijing dialect}]
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