Yangtzean

Y4A1N1G2T1Z10E1A1N1

adjective

Of or pertaining to the Yangtze river.

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Meanings

adjectiveYangtzean (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to the Yangtze river.

    Excepting some outliers — true wildlands, or the Nilotic, Mesopotamian, Yangtzean floodplains — fire and field came to share a mutual geography.

    2001, Stephen J. Pyne, Fire: A Brief History, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 68
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    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

From Yangtze + -an.

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APA

Yangtzean. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yangtzean

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“Yangtzean.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Yangtzean. Accessed November 4, 2026.

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