Mandarin vs. Clementine

Mandarinnoun

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.

Mandarinnoun

A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.

Mandarinnoun

A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.

Mandarinnoun

A mandarin duck.

Mandarinnoun

A senior civil servant.

Mandarinnoun

A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.

Mandarinnoun

A mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata.

Mandarinnoun

An orange colour.

Mandarinadjective

Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.

Mandarinnoun

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

Mandarinnoun

A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege.

Mandarinnoun

A member of an influential, powerful or elite group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles; - used especially of elder members who are traditionalist or conservative about their specialties.

Mandarinnoun

The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire.

Mandarinnoun

Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese language spoken by a mojority of the population of China, the standard variety of which is spoken in the region around Beijing.

Mandarinnoun

A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and tangerine.

Mandarinnoun

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

Mandarinnoun

a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group

Mandarinnoun

any high government official or bureaucrat

Mandarinnoun

a high public official of imperial China

Mandarinnoun

a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose-skinned citrus of China

Mandarinnoun

the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China

Clementinenoun

A type of small, sweet orange, the result of a cross between a tangerine and Seville orange.

Clementineadjective

Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

Clementinenoun

a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa

Clementinenoun

a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds

Clementine

A clementine (Citrus × clementina) is a tangor, a citrus fruit hybrid between a willowleaf mandarin orange (C. × deliciosa) and a sweet orange (C. × sinensis), named for its late 19th-century discoverer. The exterior is a deep orange colour with a smooth, glossy appearance.