Yiling

Proper noun

Yiling

1. A district of Yichang, Hubei, China.
   • Yiling, to the east of the present Ichang, Hupeh Province, was the place where Lu Sun, a general of the state of Wu, defeated the army of Liu Pei, ruler of Shu, in A.D. 222. Liu Pei’s troops scored successive victories at the beginning of the war and penetrated five or six hundred li into the...1966 [1954], Mao Tse-tung, On Protracted War, 3rd edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, published 1967, →OCLC, page 115, note 27
   • The creature, Yilingia spiciformis — named after the Yiling district in which it was discovered — was a complicated one by the standards of the Ediacaran Period: mobile, segmented, trilobate (each body segment composed of three lobes) and bilaterally symmetrical.2019 September 4, Helen Sullivan, “Behold Mortichnia, the Death Trail of an Ancient Worm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2019, Science