What is the meaning of Mandarin?

noun

• 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.
  • synonyms: mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata
• A member of an elite intellectual or cultural group.
• Any high government official or bureaucrat.
• A high public official of imperial China.
• A somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China.
  • synonyms: mandarin orange
• The dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China.
  • synonyms: Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect