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PEARL RIVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Pearl River" is a part of...):
Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea
Synonyms:
Canton River; Chu Kiang; Pearl River; Zhu Jiang
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Pearl River" 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)
