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resacas

resacas is the plural of resaca.

Meaning of resaca

Noun

resaca (plural resacas)

  1. A dry river bed, a former channel of the Rio Grande, found in the southern half of Cameron County, Texas and deep into northeastern portions of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
    • The road lay over dark resacas and running streams, where volcanic rocks rose above each other^([sic]), and every detour might have been made a fortress.1848, Fayette Robinson, An Account of the Organization of the Army of the United States; with Biographies of Distinguished Officers of All Grades, volume 2, Philadelphia: E. H. Butler, pages 258–9
  2. (Texas) A small body of water.

Questions about resacas

What is resacas the plural of?
Resacas is the plural of resaca.

Words near resacas in the dictionary

  1. res judicatae
  2. res nullius
  3. res publica
  4. res.
  5. resaca
  6. resacas
  7. resacetophenone
  8. resacralization
  9. resacralize
  10. resacralized
  11. resacralizes

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