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| | Western Yugur Names of Trees |
 | | Only few Western Yugur names for decidious trees are of Turkic etymology; most are of Chinese origin, such as miozïfu or miozïfu terek, Chinese white poplar, wuthun terek, diversiform leaved poplar (from Chinese wútóng, Chinese parasol tree), üshu or üfu, Siberian elm (from Chinese yúshù), and sakoza, the Chinese pear-leaved crabapple (from Chinese shaguozi). |
 | | This runs parallel to the Chinese word shù, tree (or fu in some Northwest Mandarin dialects) as in yúshù, elm(-tree), songshù, pine(-tree), and baishù, juniper(-tree). |
 | | The Western Yugur tree name ahrça or ahrça terek refers to the juniper, which is burnt as an incense in religious ceremonies. |
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