china : Idioms & Phrases

• noun fine porcelain that contains bone ash
  

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• noun capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city
  Beijing; Peking; Peiping.
  

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• noun valued for their beautiful flowers in a wide range of clear bright colors; grown primarily for cutting
  Callistephus chinensis.
  

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• (Bot.), a well-known garden flower and plant. See Aster.

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• . See under Bean, 1.

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• noun a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china
  china cabinet.
  

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• noun a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)
  china clay; kaoline; porcelain clay; kaolin; terra alba.
  

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• See Kaolin.

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• noun a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china
  china cabinet.
  

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• noun twining perennial vine having racemes of fragrant greenish flowers; western China to Russia
  Polygonum aubertii; silver lace vine; Russian vine.
  

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• noun tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax
  Boehmeria nivea; ramie; Chinese silk plant; ramee.
  

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• Same as Ramie.

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• . See India ink.

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• noun 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
  Abutilon theophrasti; velvetleaf; velvet-leaf; velvetweed; butter-print; Indian mallow.
  

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• noun Chinese pink with deeply toothed rose-lilac flowers with a purplish eye; usually raised as an annual
  rainbow pink; Dianthus chinensis.
  

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• (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of Dianthus (D. Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink.

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• (Med.), the rootstock of a species of Smilax (S. China, from the East Indies; formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the galanga root (from Alpinia Gallanga and Alpinia officinarum).

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• noun shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses
  Bengal rose; Rosa chinensis.
  
• noun large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
  Hibiscus rosa-sinensis; shoeblack plant; Chinese hibiscus; China rose; shoe black.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) A popular name for several free-blooming varieties of rose derived from the Rosa Indica, and perhaps other species. (b) A flowering hothouse plant (Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis) of the Mallow family, common in the gardens of China and the east Indies.

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• a shop or store for the sale of China ware or of crockery.

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• noun a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar); used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper)
  china clay; kaoline; porcelain clay; kaolin; terra alba.
  

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• noun evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans
  false dogwood; Sapindus saponaria; jaboncillo; chinaberry.
  
• noun tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree
  azedarach; azederach; Melia azederach; chinaberry tree; chinaberry; Melia azedarach; pride-of-India; Persian lilac.
  

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• porcelain; so called in the 17th century because brought from the far East, and differing from the pottery made in Europa at that time; also, loosely, crockery in general.

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• noun Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs
  cochin.
  

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• noun a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
  Cathay; PRC; Communist China; mainland China; China; People's Republic of China.
  

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• noun glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface
  crackle; crackleware.
  

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• noun part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia
  

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• noun a fortification 1,500 miles long built across northern China in the 3rd century BC; it averages 6 meters in width
  Great Wall; Chinese Wall.
  

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• a hard white pottery, first made in England during the 18th century.

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• noun a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
  Cathay; PRC; Communist China; mainland China; China; People's Republic of China.
  

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• noun a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong
  Taiwan; Nationalist China; China.
  

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• noun a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
  Cathay; PRC; Communist China; mainland China; China; People's Republic of China.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Azedarach.

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Pseu`do-chi"na noun

Etymology

Pseudo- + china.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo-china), found in America.

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• noun a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
  Cathay; PRC; Communist China; mainland China; China; People's Republic of China.
  

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• noun a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong
  Taiwan; Nationalist China; China.
  

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• noun large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
  Hibiscus rosa-sinensis; shoeblack plant; Chinese hibiscus; China rose; shoe black.
  

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• noun a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons
  

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• noun deciduous tree of southwestern United States having pulpy fruit containing saponin
  Sapindus marginatus; Sapindus drumondii.
  

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