Definitions for yellow sea

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

Yel′low Sea′(n.)

  1. an arm of the Pacific N of the East China Sea, between China and Korea.

    Category: Pinyin, Geography (places)

    Ref: Also called Huang Hai, Hwang Hai.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Yellow Sea, Huang Hai(noun)

    part of the Pacific off the east coast of Asia

Wiktionary

  1. Yellow Sea(ProperNoun)

    an arm of the Pacific Ocean between mainland China and the Korean peninsula

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Yellow Sea

    or Whang-hai, an inlet of the Pacific, on the NE. coast of China, bounded on the E. by the Corea, including in the NW. the Gulf of Pechili, some 600 m. long, and its average breadth 300 m.; is very shallow, and gradually silting up owing to the quantity of alluvium brought down by the rivers which fall into it.


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