mandarin
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1. the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | chinese, |
| definition | : | any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system (noun.communication) |
2. a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit, |
| definition | : | any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | clementine, |
| definition | : | a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | satsuma, |
| definition | : | medium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin (noun.food) |
| hyponym | : | tangerine, |
| definition | : | any of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa (noun.food) |
3. a high public official of imperial China (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | chinese, |
| definition | : | a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China (noun.person) |
4. any high government official or bureaucrat (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | functionary, official, |
| definition | : | a worker who holds or is invested with an office (noun.person) |
5. a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | elitist, |
| definition | : | someone who believes in rule by an elite group (noun.person) |
6. 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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | citrus, citrus tree, |
| definition | : | any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | clementine, clementine tree, |
| definition | : | a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa (noun.plant) |
| part holonym | : | mandarin, mandarin orange, |
| definition | : | a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China (noun.food) |
| member meronym | : | genus citrus, |
| definition | : | orange; lemon; lime; etc. (noun.plant) |
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