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, - |
crested myna
Acridotheres tristis | dark brown crested bird of southeastern Asia |
Chinese alligator
Alligator sinensis | small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits |
tree swift
crested swift | birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
Chinese goose
Anser cygnoides | very large wild goose of northeast Asia, interbreeds freely with the greylag |
| crested screamer | distinguished from the horned screamer by a feathery crest on the back of the head |
crested cariama
seriema Cariama cristata | Brazilian Cariama, sole representative of the genus Cariama |
| tern | small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail |
great crested grebe
Podiceps cristatus | large Old World grebe with black ear tufts |
rock hopper
crested penguin | small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand |
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 |
crested coral root
Hexalectris spicata | orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins, southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States |
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 |
crested wheatgrass
crested wheat grass
fairway crested wheat grass
Agropyron cristatum | Eurasian grass grown in United States great plains area for forage and erosion control |
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 |