Yangtzean

Yangtzean

English

Etymology

Yangtze +‎ -an

Adjective

Yangtzean (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the Yangtze river.
   • 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature, History, and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (1988), →ISBN, page 3:

     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.

   • 1990, Palaeontologia Cathayana, Volume 5, page 173:

     In China, the Yangtzean (or North China) fauna is equivalent to the shelf biofacies including endemic polymeroid ptychoparioids, corynexochids, redlichiids, etc., […]

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

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