Meaning of puxi | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The edible larvae of various flies of the genus Ephydra, found in the alkaline lakes of western North America.
   plural, plural-only
2. The central area of Shanghai, China, particularly Huangpu District.

Examples

“The most singular food, in all probability, is that larvæ of a fly, common in certain portions of California and known as Ephydra. […] Not only the eggs, but the larvæ, themselves a disagreeable-looking worm, are used as food under the name of puxi.”

“The "larvae", furthermore, are said to be eaten as puxi, so that the miraculous corixids are eaten in four different forms under as many names.”

“They also gather aquatic insect eggs (ahuautle), brine flies (puxi), and algae (cuculito).”

“Shanghai's Puxi district, on the west bank of the Huangpu River, could become the focus for the city's financial community, like Central. There are 10 areas within Puxi, the most famous of which is Huangpu. It accommodates the Bund, the traditional commercial hub of Shanghai.”

“Where just 20 years ago there were rice paddies, now stands the new and ultramodern Pudong financial district and its imposing office towers. On Puxi, across the river, is the Bund, a collection of stately Art Deco buildings from the 1920s and '30s that call to mind old parts of New York or London. Before the 1949 Communist revolution, the buildings housed the headquarters of international banks and trading companies.”

“An executive at a foreign bank in Shanghai, who declined to be identified, said his bank is on a hybrid working model, with some staff working and sleeping at a backup office in Puxi, in the western side of the city, while some others staying in a trading room in Pudong.”

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