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