A sub-prefectural city in Xinjiang, China. / A town in Qiemo, Bayingolin prefecture, Xinjiang, China, formerly a township. / A township in Yutian, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

A saline lake, straddling the Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan border, that was once large, but shrank to a quarter of its original size after the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, which previously flowed into it, were diverted for irrigation purposes during the Soviet era.

plural of aralia

Spikenard and any of many related ornamental and food plants, of the genus Aralia, from Asia and the Americas

(botany) Of or relating to the family Araliaceae.

An evergreen shrub, Fatsia japonica, native to Japan.

plural of Japanese aralia

(organic chemistry) Any univalent radical derived from an alkyl radical by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by aryl groups

plural of aralkyl

A new desert that has appeared on the seabed once occupied by the Aral Sea.