A Chinese lantern can refer to the following:
- A collapsible paper lantern or sky lantern in bright colours used for decorative purposes, commonly painted with Chinese art and calligraphy motifs.
- The shrub Abutilon x hybridum
- The shrub or small tree Dichrostachys cinerea
- The herbaceous plant Physalis alkekengi
- The Chinese lantern structure, a molecule containing two metal centers bridged by four bidentate ligands.
Famous quotes containing the word lantern:
“Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern & his undersea folk.
At 11, Let’s Pretend/& we did/& I, the poet, still do, Thank God!”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)