mandarin vs citrus tree

citrus tree vs mandarin

mandarin and citrus tree both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mandarin	Yes	No	No	No
citrus tree	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, citrus tree is a hypernym of mandarin; that is, citrus tree is a word with a broader meaning than mandarin:

mandarin: 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
citrus tree: any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds

Other hypernyms of mandarin include citrus.

mandarin (noun)	citrus tree (noun)
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China	any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds
a high public official of imperial China
any high government official or bureaucrat
a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
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

Difference between mandarin and citrus tree

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