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Meanings of mandarin in English

Portuguese
tangerina
Catalan
mandarina

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.

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        tangerina
        Portuguese
        língua mandarim

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

              língua mandarim
              Russian
              мандарин
              Portuguese
              mandari
              Spanish
              mandarin

              Bureaucrat in imperial China.

                      Related terms
                      мандарин

                      The official language of China and Taiwan.

                            Usage of mandarin in English
                            1
                            Undoubtedly you saw the mandarin Ki-Ming; I recognize him from your description.
                            The Hand of Fu-Manchu / Being a New Phase in the Activities of F...
                            2
                            The mandarin was bought at a Woolworths store on Findon Road yesterday.
                            News.com.au
                            3
                            At one end of the room sat the mandarin who was judge.
                            The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay o...
                            4
                            She took the little mandarin in her hand, but without examining him.
                            The Street Called Straight
                            5
                            And the yellow-faced mandarin was as busy picking them up as anyone.
                            Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
                            6
                            A prolific poet and a manipulative mandarin featured in Dáil exchanges yesterday.
                            The Irish Times
                            7
                            And so the mandarin advised you to fly to Orlando, did he?
                            Wild Youth, Volume 2.
                            8
                            She gifted each family a mandarin tree to plant in their new garden.
                            Radio NZ
                            9
                            About a quarter of California's mandarin crop was lost to frost last year.
                            Reuters
                            10
                            Currently there is a potato, a lobster and a mandarin on the market.
                            News.com.au
                            11
                            I don't think psychoanalysis should be a mandarin or elitist form of intelligence.
                            The Guardian
                            12
                            A young waitress in a scarlet silk mandarin dress stepped into the room.
                            Enigma of China
                            13
                            Slowly drizzle in mandarin oil and canola oil until mayonaise has thickened up.
                            Radio NZ
                            14
                            This angered the mandarin, who was in an especially cross mood.
                            American Fairy Tales
                            15
                            The butterfly became very indignant at this abuse from the mandarin.
                            American Fairy Tales
                            16
                            The peach dress had long sleeves and a high mandarin collar.
                            Chocolate chip cookie murder
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                            Catalan
                            mandarina
                            Mandarin through the time
                            Mandarin across language varieties
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