YANGTZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yangtze mean? 

• YANGTZE (noun)
  The noun YANGTZE has 1 sense:

1. the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai

  Familiarity information: YANGTZE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YANGTZE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Chang; Chang Jiang; Changjiang; Yangtze; Yangtze Kiang; Yangtze River

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)

 Context examples 

Over the Yangtze basin in China, north India and Polynesian islands south of the equator, rainfall is decreasing.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

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)