mandarin orange

Questions about mandarin orange

What does mandarin orange mean?

mandarin orange means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mandarin orange?

Close synonyms include mandarin, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata, mandarin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mandarin orange a common word?

mandarin orange is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.