Mandarin vs Citrus - What's the difference?
mandarin | citrus |
(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.
A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
(often, pejorative) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.
A mandarin duck.
(informal, British) A senior civil servant.
Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 58:
*:A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.
* 2007 , Marina Warner, ‘Doubly Damned’, London Review of Books 29:3, p. 26:
*:Though alert to riddles' strong roots in vernacular narrative, Cook's tastes are mandarin , and she gives a loving account of Wallace Stevens's meditations on the life of poetic images and simile […].
A mandarin orange; a small, sweet citrus fruit.
A mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata .
An orange colour.
Any of several shrubs or trees of the family Rutaceae.
The fruit of such plants, generally spherical, oblate, or prolate, consisting of an outer glandular skin called zest, an inner white skin, and generally between 8 and 16 sectors filled with pulp consisting of cells with one end attached to the inner skin. Citrus fruits include orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, and citron.
Of or relating to citrus plants or fruit.
