Chinese checkers Chinese chequers | a board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point |
Chinese Revolution | the republican revolution against the Manchu dynasty in China, - |
Chinese alligator Alligator sinensis | small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits |
Chinese goose Anser cygnoides | very large wild goose of northeast Asia, interbreeds freely with the greylag |
Chinese paddlefish Psephurus gladis | fish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish |
Chinese lantern | a collapsible paper lantern in bright colors, used for decorative purposes |
Chinese puzzle | intricate or ingenious puzzle consisting of boxes within boxes |
Chinese Wall Great Wall Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
Chinese | any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China, regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system |
Mandarin Mandarin Chinese Mandarin dialect Beijing dialect | the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China |
Tai Nuea Chinese Shan Dehong Dai | a branch of the Tai languages |
Chinese cabbage celery cabbage Chinese celery | elongated head of crisp celery-like stalks and light green leaves |
kiwi kiwi fruit Chinese gooseberry | fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh |
jujube Chinese date Chinese jujube | dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees |
coriander Chinese parsley cilantro | parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish |
Chinese mustard | very hot prepared mustard |
Chinese anise star anise star aniseed | anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine |
Chinese brown sauce brown sauce | a sauce based on soy sauce |
fried rice Chinese fried rice | boiled rice mixed with scallions and minced pork or shrimp and quickly scrambled with eggs |
Chinese deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese |
Chinese | a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China |
cassia bark Chinese cinnamon | aromatic bark of the cassia-bark tree, less desirable as a spice than Ceylon cinnamon bark |
star anise Chinese anise Illicium verum | small tree of China and Vietnam bearing anise-scented star-shaped fruit used in food and medicinally as a carminative |
saucer magnolia Chinese magnolia Magnolia soulangiana | large deciduous shrub or small tree having large open rosy to purplish flowers, native to Asia, prized as an ornamental in eastern North America |
Chinese evergreen Japanese leaf Aglaonema modestum | erect or partially climbing herb having large green or variegated leaves |
Chinese angelica Chinese angelica tree Aralia stipulata | similar to American angelica tree but less prickly, China |
chinese mustard indian mustard leaf mustard gai choi Brassica juncea | Asiatic mustard used as a potherb |
Chinese cabbage celery cabbage napa pe-tsai Brassica rapa pekinensis | plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery, used as a vegetable in east Asia |
bok choy bok choi pakchoi pak choi Chinese white cabbage Brassica rapa chinensis | Asiatic plant grown for its cluster of edible white stalks with dark green leaves |
cinnamon vine Chinese yam Dioscorea batata | hardy Chinese vine naturalized in United States and cultivated as an ornamental climber for its glossy heart-shaped cinnamon-scented leaves and in the tropics for its edible tubers |
Chinese primrose Primula sinensis | cultivated Asiatic primrose |
water chestnut Chinese water chestnut Eleocharis dulcis | Chinese sedge yielding edible bulb-shaped tubers |
China rose Chinese hibiscus Rose of China shoeblack plant shoe black Hibiscus rosa-sinensis | large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deeped flowers |
Chinese parasol tree Chinese parasol Japanese varnish tree phoenix tree Firmiana simplex | deciduous tree widely grown in southern United States as an ornamental for its handsome maplelike foliage and long racemes of yellow-green flowers followed by curious leaflike pods |
Chinese chestnut Castanea mollissima | a small tree with small sweet nuts, wild or naturalized in Korea and China |
Chinese cork oak Quercus variabilis | medium to large deciduous tree of China, Japan, and Korea having thick corky bark |
Chinese privet white wax tree Ligustrum lucidum | erect evergreen treelike shrub of China and Korea and Japan having acuminate leaves and flowers in long erect panicles, resembles Japanese privet |
Chinese gooseberry kiwi kiwi vine Actinidia chinensis Actinidia deliciosa | climbing vine native to China, cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat |
ramie ramee Chinese silk plant China grass Boehmeria nivea | tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves, cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax |
Chinese elm Ulmus parvifolia | small fast-growing tree native to Asia, widely grown as shelterbelts and hedges |
Siberian elm Chinese elm dwarf elm Ulmus pumila | fast-growing shrubby Asian tree naturalized in United States for shelter or ornament |
garlic chive Chinese chive Oriental garlic Allium tuberosum | a plant of eastern Asia, larger than Allium schoenoprasum |
Chinese pea tree Caragana sinica | shrub with dark-green glossy foliage and solitary pale yellow flowers, northern China |
Japanese pagoda tree Chinese scholartree Chinese scholar tree Sophora japonica Sophora sinensis | handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having compound dark green leaves and profuse panicles of fragrant creamy-white flowers, China and Japan |
Chinese wistaria Wisteria chinensis | having deep purple flowers |
Chinese rhubarb Rheum palmatum | long used for laxative properties |
Chinese holly Ilex cornuta | dense rounded evergreen shrub of China having spiny leaves, widely cultivated as an ornamental |
varnish tree lacquer tree Chinese lacquer tree Japanese lacquer tree Japanese varnish tree Japanese sumac Toxicodendron vernicifluum Rhus verniciflua | small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained |
Chinese forget-me-not Cynoglossum amabile | biennial east Asian herb grown for its usually bright blue flowers |
purple chinese houses innocense Collinsia bicolor Collinsia heterophylla | white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda, California |