puxi

1. pluralplural onlyThe edible larvae of various flies of the genus Ephydra, found in the alkaline lakes of western North America.

   They also gather aquatic insect eggs (ahuautle), brine flies (puxi), and algae (cuculito).

   2008, Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Northwestern Valley of Mexico: The Zumpango Region, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan

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   The most singular food, in all probability, is that larvæ of a fly, common in certain portions of California and known as Ephydra. […] Not only the eggs, but the larvæ, themselves a disagreeable-looking worm, are used as food under the name of puxi.

   1904, “Curious Foods”, in Pacific Medical Journal, volume 47, page 691

   The "larvae", furthermore, are said to be eaten as puxi, so that the miraculous corixids are eaten in four different forms under as many names.

   1957, Edward Smith Deevey, Limnologic Studies in Middle America: With a Chapter on Aztec Limnology

alternative P'u-hsi

1. The central area of Shanghai, China, particularly Huangpu District.

   An executive at a foreign bank in Shanghai, who declined to be identified, said his bank is on a hybrid working model, with some staff working and sleeping at a backup office in Puxi, in the western side of the city, while some others staying in a trading room in Pudong.

   2022 March 29, “REFILE-In China's Wall Street, bankers and traders sleep in offices to beat Shanghai COVID lockdown”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2022, 公司新闻(英文)

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   Shanghai's Puxi district, on the west bank of the Huangpu River, could become the focus for the city's financial community, like Central. There are 10 areas within Puxi, the most famous of which is Huangpu. It accommodates the Bund, the traditional commercial hub of Shanghai.

   1994 December 6, Richard Warren, “Territory 'model' for Shanghai”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2021

   Where just 20 years ago there were rice paddies, now stands the new and ultramodern Pudong financial district and its imposing office towers. On Puxi, across the river, is the Bund, a collection of stately Art Deco buildings from the 1920s and '30s that call to mind old parts of New York or London. Before the 1949 Communist revolution, the buildings housed the headquarters of international banks and trading companies.

   2004 June 2, Alexandra A. Seno, “DOING BUSINESS : Shanghai seizes the gilded, glitzy day”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Feb 2024, Style