mandarin

/mˈændɚən/ · 3 syllables

Meaning

noun

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
2. a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
3. any high government official or bureaucrat
4. a high public official of imperial China
5. a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
6. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

Synonyms for mandarin

• mandarin orange
• mandarin orange tree
• Citrus reticulata
• Mandarin Chinese
• Mandarin dialect
• Beijing dialect

Words that rhyme with mandarin

• andren