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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river, about 1000 km (620 mi) long, of central China rising in Gansu province and flowing south to the Yangtze River at Chongqing.

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Examples

  • The Jialing is a major tributary of the Yangtze, China's longest river.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The Jialing is a major tributary of the Yangtze, China's longest river.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • The Jialing is a major tributary of the Yangtze, China's longest river.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The Jialing is a major tributary of the Yangtze, China's longest river.

    Zee News : India National 2010

  • Associated Press Rescuers on the river bank watched a ferry capsize after it was hit by a restaurant boat during a rescue operation in the flooded Jialing River in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Tuesday.

    Month of Floods Strikes China 2011

  • They went up to the West Gate, where they could look down on a rolling sea of tile rooftops in the town below, or four miles out to Jialing, where they could go down to the river and watch the junks being rowed by twelve-man crews chanting songs as they passed.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • They went up to the West Gate, where they could look down on a rolling sea of tile rooftops in the town below, or four miles out to Jialing, where they could go down to the river and watch the junks being rowed by twelve-man crews chanting songs as they passed.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A rescuer looked for people as a passenger boat capsized after being hit by a restaurant boat on the flooded Jialing River in southwest China's Chongqing Tuesday.

    Asia in Pictures 2011

  • And yet only now, seeing this collection of sealed doors, did he feel the grievous possibility, even probability, that Jialing was locked away behind one of them.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • And yet only now, seeing this collection of sealed doors, did he feel the grievous possibility, even probability, that Jialing was locked away behind one of them.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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