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Definition of Nan ling
1. Noun. A mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west.
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nan Ling
Literary usage of Nan ling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"The Nan-ling (or southern range) which constitutes the most extensive mountain-
system in ... Three mountain- passes are known to traverse tbe Nan-ling. ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"The southern or Nan-ling chain is a spur of the Himalayas. Commencing in Yun-nan,
it bounds Kwang- se, Kwang-tung, ..."
3. Asia by Augustus Henry Keane (1906)
"Relief of the Land: The Kuen-lun Mountain System— The Nan-slum, Khingan, and
Nan-ling Ranges—The Cross Ridges—Plateaux and Depressions. ..."
4. Asia: With Ethnological Appendix by Augustus Henry Keane, Richard Carnac Temple (1882)
"... and Nan-ling Ranges—77i< Cross Ridges—Plateaux and Depressions. The great
frontier mountain systems of the Himalayas and Altai, enclosing the central ..."
5. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1837)
"The Nan-ling (or southern range) which constitutes the most extensive mountains'siem
in China ... Three mountain- passes are known to traverse the Nan-ling. ..."
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