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Noun mandarin has 6 senses
- mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata - 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
--1 is a kind of citrus, citrus tree
--1 is a member of genus Citrus
--1 has parts: mandarin, mandarin orange
--1 has particulars:
- mandarin - a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
--2 is a kind of elitist
- mandarin - any high government official or bureaucrat
--3 is a kind of official, functionary
- mandarin - a high public official of imperial China
--4 is a kind of Chinese
- mandarin, mandarin orange - a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China
--5 is a kind of citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit
--5 is a part of
--5 has particulars: clementine; satsuma; tangerine
- Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect - the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
--6 is a kind of Chinese
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