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Noun: purple chinese houses
  1. Californian wild flower with white and lavender to pale-blue flowers
    - innocence, Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla
Noun: chinese mustard
  1. Asiatic mustard used as a potherb
    - indian mustard, leaf mustard, gai choi, Brassica juncea
Adjective: Chinese  chI'neez
  1. Of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures
    "Chinese food"
     
  2. Of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language
    "the Chinese capital is Taipeh";
    - Taiwanese, Formosan
Noun: Chinese  chI'neez
  1. 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
     
  2. A native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China

Type of: Asian, Asiatic, mustard, Sinitic, Sinitic language, wild flower, wildflower

Part of: Brassica, Cathay [archaic], China, Chinese Taipei, Collinsia, Communist China, genus Brassica, genus Collinsia, mainland China, Nationalist China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China [informal], Republic of China, Taiwan

Encyclopedia: Chinese mustard

Chinese, Mandarin