Hongya

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洪雅.

Proper noun

Hongya

  1. A county of Meishan, Sichuan, China.
    • [1978, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 17:
      Szechwan. [] By the end of 1977, Hungya County had some 22,600 oxen in sties.]
    • 2005, The Jade Garden: New & Notable Plants from Asia, Timber Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 147:
      In June 1993, Roy Lancaster saw Ribes davidii in the wilds of Hongya County, southwestern Sichuan, growing as an epiphyte in cloud-forest communities at 2700 m, with Rhododendron moupinense, Vaccinium moupinense, and the intriguing pink-flowered, epiphytic Solomon’s seal, Heteropolygonatum xui.

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