cochin cochin china | Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs |
bone china | fine porcelain that contains bone ash |
china | high quality porcelain originally made only in China |
china cabinet china closet | a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china |
chinaware china | dishware made of high quality porcelain |
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 |
crackle crackleware crackle china | glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface |
East Midland | the dialect of Middle English that replaced West Saxon as the literary language and which developed into Modern English |
East Germanic East Germanic language | an extinct branch of the Germanic languages |
Turfan East Tocharian Turfan dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
East Chadic | a group of Chadic languages spoken in Chad |
East India Company | an English company formed in to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia, in the th century it assumed administrative control of Bengal and held it until the British army took over in after the Indian Mutiny |
East Turkistan Islamic Movement East Turkestan Islamic Movement | a group of Uighur Muslims fighting Chinese control of Xinjiang, declared by China in to be terrorists although there is a long history of cycles of insurgency and repression |
Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East | the commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations that is concerned with economic development of countries in Asia and the Far East |
east | a location in the eastern part of a country, region, or city |
East Orient | the countries of Asia |
Far East | a popular expression for the countries of eastern Asia (usually including China and Mongolia and Taiwan and Japan and Korea and Indochina and eastern Siberia) |
East eastern United States | the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River |
east side | the side that is on the east |
east-west direction | in a direction parallel with lines of latitude |
East Africa | a geographical area in eastern Africa |
China People's Republic of China mainland China Communist China Red China PRC Cathay | a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia, the most populous country in the world |
Beijing Peking Peiping capital of Red China | capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China, nd largest Chinese city |
Taiwan China Nationalist China Republic of China | a government on the island of Taiwan established in by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong |
East Germany German Democratic Republic | a republic in north central Europe on the Baltic, established by the Soviet Union in , reunified with West Germany in |
East Timor | a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in , voted for independence from Indonesia in and in May became an independent nation |
Middle East Mideast Near East | the area around the eastern Mediterranean, from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran, the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam, had continuous economic and political turmoil in the th century, the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization |
Malay Archipelago East Indies East India | a group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia |
Bangladesh People's Republic of Bangladesh Bangla Desh East Pakistan | a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south, formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan, it achieved independence in |
British East Africa | the former British territories of eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar |
East Sussex | a county in southern England on the English Channel |
East Anglia | a region of eastern England that was formerly a kingdom |
Indonesia Republic of Indonesia Dutch East Indies | a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than , islands, achieved independence from the Netherlands in , the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions |
East Malaysia | the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo |
East Coast | the eastern seaboard of the United States (especially the strip between Boston and Washington D.C.) |
East Saint Louis | a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis |
East River | a tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn |
East China Sea | part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia |
Sea of Japan East Sea | an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan |
South China Sea | a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons |
East Indian | a native or inhabitant of the East Indies |
East German | a native or inhabitant of the former republic of East Germany |
East-sider | a resident of the east side of Manhattan in New York City |
east wind easter easterly | a wind from the east |
east African cedar Juniperus procera | tropical African timber tree with fragrant wood |
crape jasmine crepe jasmine crepe gardenia pinwheel flower East Indian rosebay Adam's apple Nero's crown coffee rose Tabernaemontana divaricate | tropical shrub having glossy foliage and fragrant nocturnal flowers with crimped or wavy corollas, northern India to Thailand |
china pink rainbow pink Dianthus chinensis | Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye, usually raised as an annual |
China aster Callistephus chinensis | valued for their beautiful flowers in a wide range of clear bright colors, grown primarily for cutting |
velvetleaf velvet-leaf velvetweed Indian mallow butter-print China jute Abutilon theophrasti | tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber, naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States |
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 |