Yingde
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Ying-te, Ying-tê
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 英德 (Yīngdé).
Proper noun
Yingde
- A county-level city in Guangdong, China.
- 2016 September 26, Bakalar, Nicholas, “Ringing Up a New Species of Crab”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2022, SCIENCE:
- A previously unknown freshwater crab has been discovered in plain sight: on sale at a pet shop in China.
The shop owner led scientists to the place where the crab had been collected, in Yingde City in northern Guangdong, a subtropical province on the coast of the South China Sea.
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yingtak”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2124, column 2
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Yingde”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3528, column 2
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