Mandarin vs. Tangerine

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

Tangerinenoun

Any of several varieties of mandarin oranges.

Tangerinenoun

A deep yellowish-orange colour, like that of a tangerine fruit.

Tangerinenoun

A tree that produces tangerines.

Tangerineadjective

Of a deep yellowish-orange colour.

Tangerinenoun

A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.

Tangerinenoun

a variety of mandarin orange

Tangerinenoun

any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa

Tangerinenoun

a reddish to vivid orange color

Tangerineadjective

of a strong reddish orange color

Tangerine

The tangerine is a type of orange. Its scientific name varies.