PEARL RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pearl River mean? 

• PEARL RIVER (noun)
  The noun PEARL RIVER has 2 senses:

1. a river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea

2. a river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico

  Familiarity information: PEARL RIVER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEARL RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Canton River; Chu Kiang; Pearl River; Zhu Jiang

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)

Sense 2

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)