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Chinese

128 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. Chinese (noun)
  2. Chinese air plant (noun)
  3. Chinese alligator (noun)
  4. Chinese angelica (noun)
  5. Chinese anise (noun)
  6. Chinese arborvitae (noun)
  7. Chinese artichoke (noun)
  8. Chinese azalea (noun)
  9. Chinese banana (noun)
  10. Chinese bean oil (noun)
  11. Chinese bellflower (noun)
  12. Chinese bezique (noun)
  13. Chinese bladdernut (noun)
  14. Chinese blister fly (noun)
  15. Chinese block (noun)
  16. Chinese blue (noun)
  17. Chinese box (noun)
  18. Chinese boxes (noun plural)
  19. Chinese bridge (noun)
  20. Chinese bush cherry (noun)
  21. Chinese cabbage (noun)
  22. Chinese checkers (noun plural but singular or plural in construction)
  23. Chinese chestnut (noun)
  24. Chinese Chippendale (noun)
  25. Chinese chive (noun)
  26. Chinese cinnamon oil (noun)
  27. Chinese civet (noun)
  28. Chinese copy (noun)
  29. Chinese cork tree (noun)
  30. Chinese crescent (noun)

Chi·nese

noun \chī-ˈnēz, -ˈnēs\
plural Chinese

Definition of CHINESE

1
a : a native or inhabitant of China b : a person of Chinese descent
2
: a group of related languages used by the people of China that are often mutually unintelligible in their spoken form but share a single system of writing and that constitute a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family; especially : mandarin
— Chinese adjective
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Examples of CHINESE

  1. the customs of the Chinese
  2. He is learning to speak Chinese.

First Known Use of CHINESE

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