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Meaning of mandarin

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}, {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 imperial China
      5: a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
         [syn: {mandarin}, {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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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