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Virgin River

Virgin River proper noun: a tributary of the Colorado River in Utah, Nevada and Arizona, United States.

Proper noun

Virgin River

  1. A tributary of the Colorado River in Utah, Nevada and Arizona, United States.
    • Of the parks, Zion is carved in the southwestern flank of the Markágunt by one fork of the Virgin River, and Zion National Monument is carved by the other.1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 163
    Synonyms:
    Rio Virgen

Synonyms of Virgin River

Words formed from Virgin River

  • Virgin River brittlebush
  • Virgin River chub
  • Virgin River cryptantha
  • Virgin River Gorge

Questions about Virgin River

What does Virgin River mean?
Virgin River means a tributary of the Colorado River in Utah, Nevada and Arizona, United States.
What part of speech is Virgin River?
Virgin River is a proper noun.

Words near Virgin River in the dictionary

  1. Virgin Islands of the United States
  2. Virgin Mary
  3. Virgin Marys
  4. virgin of the sun
  5. virgin parchment
  6. Virgin River
  7. virgin soil
  8. virgin soil epidemic
  9. virgin soil epidemics
  10. virgin soils
  11. Virgin spinedace

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