Mandarin vs. Clementine — What's the Difference?

Any of a group of related dialects of Chinese spoken principally in the north and west of China.

A clementine (Citrus × clementina) is a tangor, a citrus fruit hybrid between a willowleaf mandarin orange (C. × deliciosa) and a sweet orange (C. × sinensis), named for its late 19th-century discoverer. The exterior is a deep orange colour with a smooth, glossy appearance.

The official national standard spoken language of China, based on the Mandarin dialect spoken in and around Beijing. Also called Guoyu, Putonghua.

A deep red-orange, often seedless mandarin orange.

A member of any of the nine ranks of high public officials in the Chinese Empire.

A type of small, sweet orange, the result of a cross between a tangerine and Seville orange.

A high government official or bureaucrat.

Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.

A member of an elite group, especially a person having influence or high status in intellectual or cultural circles.

A variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa

A mandarin orange.

A mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds

Of, relating to, or resembling a mandarin.

Marked by elaborate and refined language or literary style.

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.

A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.

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

(ornithology) mandarin duck

A senior civil servant.

Ellipsis of mandarin orange:

A small, sweet citrus fruit.

A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.

(color) An orange colour.

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

A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

A powerful government official or bureaucrat, especially one who is pedantic and has a strong sense of his own importance and privelege.

A member of an influential, powerful or elite group, espcially within artistic or intellectual circles; - used especially of elder members who are traditionalist or conservative about their specialties.

The form of the Chinese language spoken by members of the Chinese Imperial Court an officials of the empire.

Any of several closely related dialects of the Chinese language spoken by a mojority of the population of China, the standard variety of which is spoken in the region around Beijing.

A small flattish reddish-orange loose-skinned orange, with an easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus reticulata formerly Citrus nobilis); called also mandarin orange and tangerine.

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

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

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