| 单词 | Chinese gooseberry |
| 释义 | china1 /chīˈnə/noun
ORIGIN: Prob from the Ch'in dynasty, 3c BC Chīneeˈ noun (archaic; informal) A Chinese person Chinese /chī-nēzˈ/ noun
(in names of commodities, sometimes without cap) of, concerning or relating, etc to China, its language or its people China aster see under aster china bark see cinchona chiˈnaberry noun
china clay noun Kaolin, fine white clay used in making porcelain, etc China goose noun The Chinese goose China grass noun Rami China ink see under ink China jute noun A species of Abutilon Chiˈnaman noun
chiˈnaroot noun Root-stock of Smilax china China rose noun Any of several garden roses, esp Rosa chinensis, a shrub rose, ancestor of many cultivated varieties china stone noun Partly kaolinized granite China tea noun A kind of tea grown in China and smoke-cured Chiˈnatown noun A Chinese quarter in a city or town china tree see chinaberry above. Chinese block noun The Chinese temple block Chinese boxes plural noun A set of boxes nesting one inside another, so that when one box is opened, yet another is found to be opened inside it Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale noun Another name for gai lan Chinese burn noun The burning pain caused by gripping another person's lower arm with two hands and deliberately twisting the flesh in opposite directions Chinese cabbage noun Either of two kinds of plant, Brassica chinensis or Brassica pekinensis, with edible leaves (also called bok choy, pak choi) Chinese checkers or Chinese chequers noun A board game similar to draughts for two, four or six players Chinese Chippendale noun A style of Chippendale furniture in which Chinese motifs are used Chinese copy noun An exact copy, including all the defects in the original Chinese goose noun The largest living goose, Anser (or Cygnopsis) cygnoides, domesticated in E Asia Chinese gooseberry noun Another name for kiwi fruit Chinese herbal medicine noun The use of combinations of various properties and attributes of herbs to restore balance of qi and nourish the constitution Chinese lantern noun A collapsible paper lantern Chinese lantern plant same as winter cherry (see under winter). Chinese layering noun Air layering (qv) Chinese leaves plural noun The edible leaves of Chinese cabbage Chinese paper noun
Chinese pavilion see under pavilion Chinese puzzle noun A very difficult puzzle or problem Chinese radish noun Mooli (also white radish, daikon) Chinese red noun A bright-red colour or pigment Chinese restaurant syndrome noun A short-lived illness with symptoms including chest pain, dizziness and flushing, attributed to the consumption of too much monosodium glutamate, common in Chinese food Chinese sugarcane see under sorghum Chinese temple block noun A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow wooden block that is struck with a hammer Chinese wall noun (often in pl) The strict demarcation barrier which must exist between eg the corporate finance and investment advisory departments of a bank, etc in order to ensure that privileged information available to one department is not available to the other and so prevent conflicts of interest from arising Chinese water deer noun A small deer (Hydropotes inermis) of swampland in China and Korea, having tusks and no antlers Chinese whispers singular noun A game in which a message is passed in a whisper from one to another of a group of people, with the result that the final version is different from the original, often amazingly or humorously so Chinese white noun A zinc oxide pigment gooseberry /gŭzˈbə-ri or gŭsˈ/noun
ORIGIN: Perh goose and berry1; or goose may be from MHGer krus (Gr kraus crisp, curled); cf OFr groisele, grosele gooseberry, Scot grossart gooseˈberry-caterpillar noun A creamy looper with orange spots and black dots, feeding on gooseberry leaves, the larva of the gooseˈberry-moth or magpie moth (Abraxas grossulariata), a yellow-bodied moth with black-spotted white wings gooseberry-foolˈ see fool2 gooseˈberry-stone noun Grossular, a mineral of the garnet group gooseˈgog or gooseˈgob noun (informal and dialect) A gooseberry Cape gooseberry or gooseberry tomato see under cape2 Chinese gooseberry A subtropical vine (Actinidia chinensis) with brown, hairy, edible fruit, the kiwi fruit Coromandel gooseberry Carambola (qv) kiwi /kēˈwē/noun
ORIGIN: Maori, from the bird's cry kiwi fruit noun The fruit of a subtropical vine (Actinidia chinensis) with edible pale green flesh and a furry greyish-brown skin (also called Chinese gooseberry) |
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