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Richelieu

Richelieu proper noun: a river, the Richelieu River, in Quebec, Canada, which flows from Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence River, and named after Cardinal Richelieu.

Proper noun

Richelieu

  1. A river, the Richelieu River, in Quebec, Canada, which flows from Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence River, and named after Cardinal Richelieu.
  2. A tributary of the Montmorency River in Quebec, itself a tributary of the St. Lawrence River.
    • To date, the Richelieu is the only tributary of the St. Lawrence that has been invaded and colonized by zebra mussels.2004, Yves de Lafontaine, Marcel Comiré, “Zebra Mussel Monitoring in the Richelieu River: A Fruitful Interaction between Scientific Research and Public Involvement”, in Thomas O. Manley, Patricia L....
  3. A city on the Richelieu River in Rouville Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  4. A commune in Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.

Questions about Richelieu

What does Richelieu mean?
Richelieu means a river, the Richelieu River, in Quebec, Canada, which flows from Lake Champlain to the St. Lawrence River, and named after Cardinal Richelieu.
What part of speech is Richelieu?
Richelieu is a proper noun.

Words near Richelieu in the dictionary

  1. richdoms
  2. Riche
  3. Richebourg
  4. Richebourgs
  5. riched
  6. Richelieu
  7. richellite
  8. richelsdorfite
  9. richen
  10. Richendollar
  11. richened

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