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Yangtzean

Yangtzean adjective: of or pertaining to the Yangtze river.

Adjective

Yangtzean (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Yangtze river.
    • Natural time, social time, remembered time — these are the three kinds of time, the three lenses, through which I will try to view the Yangtzean world.1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature, History, and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 3
    • In China, the Yangtzean (or North China) fauna is equivalent to the shelf biofacies including endemic polymeroid ptychoparioids, corynexochids, redlichiids, etc., […]1990, Palaeontologia Cathayana, volume 5, page 173

Origin of Yangtzean

From Yangtze + -an.

Questions about Yangtzean

What does Yangtzean mean?
Yangtzean means of or pertaining to the Yangtze river.
What part of speech is Yangtzean?
Yangtzean is an adjective.

Words near Yangtzean in the dictionary

  1. Yangtze giant softshell turtle
  2. Yangtze giant softshell turtles
  3. Yangtze Kiang
  4. Yangtze River dolphin
  5. Yangtze River dolphins
  6. Yangtzean
  7. Yangtzi
  8. Yanguan
  9. Yangxin
  10. Yangzhou
  11. Yangzhou fried rice

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