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 |