Mandarin vs Nectarine - What's the difference?
mandarin | nectarine |
(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.
A cultivar of the peach distinguished by its skin being smooth, not fuzzy.
*1881 , R.L. Stevenson, :
*:When you see a dish of fruit at dessert, you sometimes set your affections upon one particular peach or nectarine , watch it with some anxiety as it comes round the table, and feel quite a sensible disappointment when it is taken by some one else.
