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, - |
| pond scum | free-floating freshwater green algae |
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 |
| heron | grey or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill |
great blue heron
Ardea herodius | large American heron having bluish-grey plumage |
| great white heron Ardea occidentalis | large white heron of Florida and the Florida Keys |
little blue heron
Egretta caerulea | small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere |
snowy egret
snowy heron
Egretta thula | small New World egret |
| great white heron Casmerodius albus | widely distributed Old World white egret |
American egret
great white heron Egretta albus | a common egret of the genus Egretta found in America, it is a variety of the Old World white egret Casmerodius albus |
night heron
night raven | nocturnal or crepuscular herons |
blackrowned night heron
Nycticorax nycticorax | night heron of both Old and New Worlds |
yellowrowned night heron
Nyctanassa violacea | North American night heron |
boatbill
boat-billed heron
broadbill Cochlearius cochlearius | tropical American heron related to night herons |
water strider
pond-skater
water skater | long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water |
common pond-skater
Gerris lacustris | a variety of water strider |
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 |
| pond apple | ovoid yellow fruit with very fragrant peacholored flesh, related to custard apples |
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 |
pond
pool | a small lake, the pond was too small for sailing |
| Chinese deity | a deity worshipped by the ancient Chinese |
| Chinese | a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China |
Hero Heron
Hero of Alexandria | Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) |
pond pine
Pinus serotina | large three-needled pine of sandy swamps of southeastern United States, needles longer than those of the northern pitch pine |
bald cypress
swamp cypress
pond bald cypress
southern cypress
Taxodium distichum | common cypress of southeastern United States having trunk expanded at base, found in coastal swamps and flooding river bottoms |
pond cypress
bald cypress Taxodium ascendens | smaller than and often included in the closely related Taxodium distichum |
pond apple
pond-apple tree
Annona glabra | small evergreen tree of tropical America with edible fruit, used chiefly as grafting stock |
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 |
water nymph fragrant water lily
pond lily
Nymphaea odorata | a water lily having large leaves and showy fragrant flowers that float on the water, of temperate and tropical regions |
spatterdock
cow lily
yellow pond lily
Nuphar advena | common water lily of eastern and central North America, having broad leaves and globe-shaped yellow flowers, in sluggish fresh or slightly brackish water |
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 |