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china | chinar |

As nouns the difference between china and chinar

is that china is (uncountable) the root of a climbing plant, smilax china l, once believed to have important medicinal properties or china can be (cockney rhyming slang|countable) mate (ie, friend) while chinar is the tree platanus orientalis , the oriental plane.

china

English

(wikipedia China)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in East Asia, officially named the People's Republic of China ().
  • A region in East Asia comprising the areas governed by the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan).
  • The civilization of the Chinese people.
  • (very rarely) A female given name.

    • Derived terms

    * China Hand * Chinaman * China syndrome * Chinese * sinophobia

    See also

    * * * * * Cathay * * all the tea in China * made in China

    Anagrams

    * (l) ----

    chinar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The tree Platanus orientalis , the oriental plane.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 26, author=Holland Cotter, title=Treasures From a Land in Tumult, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The lakes, the gardens, the chinars golden in autumn, the Himalayas all around. }}