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Pearl River

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Pearl River
1. A river, about 780 km (485 mi) long, of central and southern Mississippi flowing southwest then south to the Gulf of Mexico. Its lower course forms part of the Mississippi-Louisiana border.
2. See Zhu Jiang.

Pearl River
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1. (Placename) a river in central Mississippi, flowing southwest and south to the Gulf of Mexico. Length: 789 km (490 miles)
2. (Placename) the English name for the Zhu Jiang
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Noun1.Pearl RiverPearl River - a river in southeast China that flows into the South China Sea
Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
2.Pearl River - a river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico
Magnolia State, Mississippi, MS - a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War


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Twickem, from New Orleans; 'nother day, I'm just come from my plantation on Pearl river, where I works seven hundred niggers; then, again, I come out a distant relation of Henry Clay, or some old cock in Kentuck.
 
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