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Noun
Definition: 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
Definition: a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
Definition: any high government official or bureaucrat
Definition: a high public official of imperial China
Definition: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
Definition: a high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire
Definition: Ellipsis of mandarin orange:
Definition: a small, sweet citrus fruit
Definition: Standard Mandarin, an official language of China and Taiwan, and one of four official languages in Singapore; Putonghua, Guoyu or Huayu
Adjective
Definition: pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist