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
mandarin: a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
mandarin: any high government official or bureaucrat
mandarin: a high public official of imperial China
mandarin, mandarin orange: a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China