| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| chinese healing technique in which needles are inserted into the body |
acupuncture
|
| climbing herbs of southeastern Asia having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen |
Aglaonema
,
genus Aglaonema
|
| Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil |
Aleurites fordii
,
tung
,
tung-oil tree
,
tung tree
|
| Chinese perennial with pyramidal racemes of white flowers and pungent aromatic roots used medicinally and as flavoring |
Alpinia officinalis
,
Alpinia officinarum
,
lesser galangal
|
| North American woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the Chinese ginseng |
American ginseng
,
Panax quinquefolius
,
sang
|
| any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province |
Amoy
,
Fukien
,
Fukkianese
,
Hokkianese
,
Min
,
Min dialect
,
Taiwanese
|
| Chinese moth that produces a brownish silk |
Antheraea pernyi
,
pernyi moth
|
| for Chinese dishes: apricot preserves and chutney |
apricot sauce
|
| Chinese evergreen climbing rose with yellow or white single flowers |
banksia rose
,
Rosa banksia
|
| Chinese deciduous shrub with yellow-throated pinkish flowers and bristly fruit; often cultivated as an ornamental |
beauty bush
,
Kolkwitzia amabilis
|
| dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China |
Beijing dialect
,
Mandarin
,
Mandarin Chinese
,
Mandarin dialect
|
| capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city |
Beijing
,
capital of Red China
,
Peiping
,
Peking
|
| shrubby Chinese rose; ancestor of many cultivated garden roses |
Bengal rose
,
China rose
,
Rosa chinensis
|
| Chinese perennial having mauve-pink to bright sky blue flowers in drooping cymes |
blue poppy
,
Meconopsis betonicifolia
|
| Chinese silkworm moth |
Bombycidae
,
family Bombycidae
|
| type genus of the Bombycidae: Chinese silkworm moth |
Bombyx
,
genus Bombyx
|
| member of a nationalistic Chinese secret society that led an unsuccessful rebellion in 1900 against foreign interests in China |
Boxer
|
| dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China |
Cantonese
,
Cantonese dialect
,
Yue
,
Yue dialect
|
| Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon |
cassia
,
cassia-bark tree
,
Cinnamomum cassia
|
| Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955; not yet cultivated elsewhere |
Cathaya
|
