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Kan River — noun a river in southeastern China that flows generally north into the Chang Jiang to the north of Nanchang • Syn: ↑Gan Jiang • Instance Hypernyms: ↑river • Part Holonyms: ↑China, ↑People s Republic of China, ↑m … Useful english dictionary
Kan — can refer to: * One of the Bacabs of Mayan mythology * Gan, the Wade Giles spelling of the Pinyin word * Kan River in Russia * Kanye West * Kán, a Hungarian noble family * Daniel Kan, a mathematician * Catty, or kan (斤), a Chinese unit of weight… … Wikipedia
Kan — abbrev. Kansas * * * (as used in expressions) Kan su Kan River T a k o la ma kan Sha mo * * * … Universalium
river — river1 riverless, adj. riverlike, adj. /riv euhr/, n. 1. a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels. 2. a similar stream of something other than water: a… … Universalium
Kan Maax — (fl. 800 CE), alternatively transliterated as K an Maax, has been identified as the last known ruler of Cancuen, a pre Columbian Maya polity located at the headwaters of the Pasion River in modern day Guatemala. In 2005 an archaeological project… … Wikipedia
River Continuum Concept — Das River Continuum Concept ist ein Modell zur Einteilung und Beschreibung von Fließgewässern, das neben der Klassifizierung einzelner Gewässerabschnitte nach dem Vorkommen von Leitorganismen auch die Geomorphologie nutzt. In der Limnologie… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Gan River — or Kan River River, southeastern China. Located in Jiangxi province, it flows north through Lake Poyang to enter the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) after a course of 537 mi (864 km). A major southern tributary of the Yangtze, its valley provided an… … Universalium
Yangtze River — Chinese Chang Jiang or Ch ang Chiang River, China. Rising in the eastern Kunlun Mountains in western China, it flows southeast, continuing east across Yunnan province and then across the rest of south central China to the East China Sea near… … Universalium
Arkansas River — River, rising in central Colorado, U.S. At 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, it flows east through southern Kansas and southeast across northeastern Oklahoma and bisects Arkansas, where it empties into the Mississippi River. Navigable for 650 mi (1,046… … Universalium
Verdigris River — River, southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma, U.S. It rises in east central Kansas and flows south across the Oklahoma border, emptying into the Arkansas River northeast of Muskogee, Okla. It is 350 mi (560 km) long. * * * ▪ river, United … Universalium
