Shizhu
See also: shīzhǔ, shízhú, shízhù, and shìzhǔ
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 石柱 (Shízhù).
Proper noun
Shizhu
- A county of Chongqing, China.
- 1982 February, Wen, Huanran; He Yeheng, “China's Forests—Past and Present”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXXI, number 2, China Welfare Institute, ISSN 0009-4447, OCLC 1554324, page 66:
- The “living fossil”, metasequoia, for example, was once distributed over large areas of Europe, Asia and the Americas from the Cretaceous to the Tertiary periods. Destroyed by glaciers, its natural distribution in China is today limited to Sichuan’s Shizhu county, Hubei’s Lichuan county and Hunan’s Longshan county.
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Translations
county
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