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nounbackbone of an animaltype of:
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nouncut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbonetype of:
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verbcut through the backbone of an animal
Definition that contains chine
- li Chinese distance measure; approximately 0.5 kilometers
- mahjong Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles
- mao Chinese communist leader (1893-1976)
- tung Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil
- ginseng Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers
- confucius Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC)
- oolong Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried
- lychee Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
- cassia Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon
- litchi tree Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium