Mandarin

/mˈændɝʌn/

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Definitions

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