INDUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indus mean? 

• INDUS (noun)
  The noun INDUS has 2 senses:

1. a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana

2. an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea

  Familiarity information: INDUS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Indus; Indus River

Context example:

the valley of the Indus was the site of an early civilization

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Indus" is a part of...):

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

 Context examples 

Declining flows will adversely affect farming communities across the region as well as the food needs of 1.5 billion people living downstream of 10 major rivers, including the Ganges, Yangtze, Tsang Po and the Indus.

(Bulk of Himalayan glaciers could vanish by 2100, SciDev.Net)

Asia's mountain glaciers flow from the cold heights of the world's tallest mountains down to warmer climate zones, where they melt much faster, feeding major rivers such as the Indus and Yangtze.

(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)