means A small, easy-to-peel citrus fruit with loose orange skin and sweet segments, of which the tangerine is one well-known type (the word also names a high official of imperial China and the standard Chinese language, but here it's the fruit).

from The fruit borrows its name from the official: 'mandarin' came to Europe via Portuguese 'mandarim', from Malay 'menteri', tracing back to Sanskrit 'mantrin', meaning 'counselor' or 'minister' (a cousin of 'mantra'). The popular story links the fruit to the deep orange-yellow robes of those Chinese officials — and that color association does seem to be how the citrus earned the name in the 18th–19th centuries.