china🔊

(porcelain), a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as (fine) or (good) ''china''.

(chinaware) Chinaware: porcelain tableware.

(dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.

(China root), the root of (species) (particularly) as a medicine.

(obsolete) (cheyney): worsted or woolen stuff.

(China rose), in its various senses.

(mate) (South Africa) (mate) {{q|rhyme of china-plate}}.

(dated) Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.

(obsolete) A glazed china marble.

(music) A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.