QIANG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Qiang mean? 

• QIANG (noun)
  The noun QIANG has 1 sense:

1. the Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan

  Familiarity information: QIANG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QIANG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Sichuan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Qiang; Qiangic

Hypernyms ("Qiang" is a kind of...):

Tibeto-Burman; Tibeto-Burman language (a branch of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages spoken from Tibet to the Malay Peninsula)

 Context examples 

Led by molecular biologist Chao-Qiang Lai from Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at Tufts University, Boston, the study found the same epigenetic mark also is likely associated with greater appetite, and this can result in greater food consumption and a higher BMI.

(International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet, U.S. Department of Agriculture)