[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mandarin \man`darin"\, n. pg. mandarim, from malay mantrimac
   minister of state, prop. a hind. word, fr. skr. mantrin a
   counselor, manira a counsel, man to think.
   1. a chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military
      official in china and annam.
      1913 webster

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

   3. hence: 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.
      pjc

   5. the form of the chinese language spoken by members of the
      chinese imperial court an officials of the empire.
      pjc

   6. 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.
      pjc

   7. bot. 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.
      1913 webster

   mandarin language, the spoken or colloquial language of
      educated people in china.

   mandarin yellow chem., an artificial aniline dyestuff
      used for coloring silk and wool, and regarded as a complex
      derivative of quinoline.
      1913 webster
see also:
citrus reticulata citrus nobilis mandarin orange tangerine mandarin language mandarin yellow 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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 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 orange
     6: the dialect of chinese spoken in beijing and adopted as the
        official language for all of china syn: mandarin chinese,
         mandarin dialect, beijing dialect
see also:
mandarin orange mandarin orange tree citrus reticulata mandarin chinese mandarin dialect beijing dialect 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

56 moby thesaurus words for "mandarin":
   brahmin, authority, brainworker, bureaucrat, civil servant, doctor,
   egghead, elder, elder statesman, elitist, functionary,
   functionnaire, great soul, guru, highbrow, illuminate, intellect,
   intellectual, intellectualist, jack-in-office, literate,
   lover of wisdom, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, master,
   mastermind, mentor, name-dropper, office-bearer, officeholder,
   officer, official, officiary, oracle, petty tyrant, philosopher,
   placeman, prig, public official, public servant, rabbi, red-tapist,
   rishi, sage, sapient, savant, scholar, seer, snob, starets,
   thinker, tufthunter, white-collar intellectual, wise man,
   wise old man

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Mandarin Orange, definition of term: Mandarin Orange
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