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AMUR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Amur mean?
• AMUR (noun)
The noun AMUR has 1 sense:
1. an Asian river between China and Russia; flows into the Sea of Okhotsk
Familiarity information: AMUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An Asian river between China and Russia; flows into the Sea of Okhotsk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Amur; Amur River; Heilong; Heilong Jiang
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Amur" 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)
Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)
Context examples
A proprietary formulation consisting of a Phellodendron amurense (Amur cork tree) bark extract, often used in traditional Chinese medicine, with anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant and potential chemopreventive and antineoplastic activities.
(Phellodendron amurense Bark Extract, NCI Thesaurus)
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