[ adj ] of or relating to or characteristic of Manchuria or its people or their culture <adj.pert> the Manchurian invasion
Zoologists estimated that only 80 Manchurian tigers roamed the region's wooded mountains in the late 1960s.
One of the freshest and liveliest pictures out right now is 25 years old: "The Manchurian Candidate."
She was nominated for an Academy Award for her first movie, "Gaslight," and twice more, for "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Manchurian Candidate," where she played Laurence Harvey's mother.
Probably her most famous mother role was in "The Manchurian Candidate," a chilling 1962 political thriller that was withdrawn until recently because of the Kennedy assassination.