| Ghanese | adj. 1. same as Ghanaian (in both senses).
Syn. -- Ghanian, Ghanaian. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| Chinese | a. Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. [ 1913 Webster ]
Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. --
Chinese wax, a snowy-white, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Chinese | n. sing. & pl. 1. A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. sing. The language of China, which is monosyllabic. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | . Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Chinese-red | adj. of a vivid red to reddish-orange color.
Syn. -- vermilion, vermillion, cinibar. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
| chinese | (n) 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 |
| chinese | (n) a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China |
| chinese | (adj) of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures, Example: Chinese food |
| chinese alligator | (n) small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits, Syn. Alligator sinensis |
| chinese angelica | (n) similar to American angelica tree but less prickly; China, Syn. Aralia stipulata, Chinese angelica tree |
| chinese anise | (n) anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine, Syn. star aniseed, star anise |
| chinese brown sauce | (n) a sauce based on soy sauce, Syn. brown sauce |
| chinese cabbage | (n) plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east Asia, Syn. pe-tsai, Brassica rapa pekinensis, napa, celery cabbage |
| chinese cabbage | (n) elongated head of crisp celery-like stalks and light green leaves, Syn. Chinese celery, celery cabbage |
| chinese checkers | (n) 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, Syn. Chinese chequers |
