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Gila River

Gila River proper noun: a tributary of the Colorado River in New Mexico and Arizona, United States.

Proper noun

Gila River

  1. A tributary of the Colorado River in New Mexico and Arizona, United States.
    • Farther to the southward, the rivers which are affluent to the Colorado, such as the Rio Virgen, and Gila river, near their mouths, are impregnated with salt by the cliffs of rock salt between which they pass.1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton...
    • Here in New Mexico the Gila River has its source.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...

Words formed from Gila River

  • Gila River water hyssop

Questions about Gila River

What does Gila River mean?
Gila River means a tributary of the Colorado River in New Mexico and Arizona, United States.
What part of speech is Gila River?
Gila River is a proper noun.

Words near Gila River in the dictionary

  1. Gil Gil
  2. gila
  3. Gila County
  4. Gila monster
  5. Gila monsters
  6. Gila River
  7. Gila trout
  8. Gila trouts
  9. Gila woodpecker
  10. Gilad
  11. Gilaki

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