mandarin

noun

1. A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

2. A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.

3. A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.

4. Ellipsis of mandarin duck.

adjective

1. Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.

noun

1. Ellipsis of mandarin orange: A small, sweet citrus fruit. A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.

2. A small, sweet citrus fruit.