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Selenga

Selenga proper noun: a river in Mongolia and Russia that flows into Baikal Lake.

Proper noun

Selenga

  1. A river in Mongolia and Russia that flows into Baikal Lake.
    • From this range another branches off at the source of the river Vitima, near 113° E. long., which runs to the south-west, separating the rivers which fall into the Amur from those which run westward to the Selenga.1841, Scanderoon - Signet
    • The western extremity of this region, namely the territory lying to the west of the Selenga, and between the frontier and the southern end of Baikal, presents the appearance of a table-land, with a height of about 20oo feet,1874, Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Geographical Magazine, page 111

Examples of Selenga in a sentence

  • This migration coincides with summer floods in the Selenga.1999, T. Petr, Fish and Fisheries at Higher Altitudes: Asia, Food & Agriculture Org., →ISBN, page 195:
  • Plans by Mongolia to dam the Selenga River, which flows into the lake, are also a Russian concern.2017 March 13, Neil MacFarquhar, “A Russian Lake’s Future Hangs on Tourists and Toilets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...

Questions about Selenga

What does Selenga mean?
Selenga means a river in Mongolia and Russia that flows into Baikal Lake.
How do you use Selenga in a sentence?
This migration coincides with summer floods in the Selenga.
What part of speech is Selenga?
Selenga is a proper noun.

Words near Selenga in the dictionary

  1. selenenic
  2. selenenic acid
  3. selenenic acids
  4. selenenyl
  5. seleneous
  6. Selenga
  7. Selenginsk
  8. selenhydric acid
  9. selenian
  10. seleniated
  11. selenic

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