apricot vs mandarin

apricot

noun
  • A pale yellow-orange colour, like that of an apricot fruit. 

  • The junction of the brain and brain stem on a target, used as an aiming point to ensure a one-shot kill. 

  • A round sweet and juicy stone fruit, resembling peach or plum in taste, with a yellow-orange flesh, lightly fuzzy skin and a large seed inside. 

  • The apricot tree, Prunus armeniaca 

  • A dog with an orange-coloured coat. 

adj
  • Of a pale yellowish-orange colour, like that of an apricot. 

mandarin

noun
  • A small, sweet citrus fruit. 

  • A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. 

  • A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat. 

  • A tree of the species Citrus reticulata. 

  • A senior civil servant. 

  • An orange colour. 

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

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

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