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Wind River en · PROPN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

  1. A river in the Yukon, Canada.
  2. a number of rivers in the United States. ▸ A tributary of the East Fork Chandalar River in Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
    • This route will follow the Ivishak to its headwaters, cross the divide through a 5,700-foot saddle nestled between 7,000- to 8,000-foot rugged mountains, then follow the Wind River drainage south. 1990, Debbie S. Miller, Midnight Wilderness: Journeys in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, →ISBN, page 138:
  3. a number of rivers in the United States. ▸ A tributary of Aspen Brook in Larimer County, Colorado.
  4. a number of rivers in the United States. ▸ A tributary of Agency Creek in Yamhill County, Oregon.
  5. a number of rivers in the United States. ▸ A tributary of the Columbia River in Skamania County, Washington.
  6. a number of rivers in the United States. ▸ A tributary of the Mississippi River in Pierce County, Wisconsin.
  7. a number of rivers in the United States. ▸ A river, the upper reaches of the Bighorn River in Wyoming.
    • The Green River has cut down through the Uinta Mountains in the last few million years, the Wind River through the Owl Creek Mountains, the Laramie River through the Laramie Range. 1986, John McPhee, Rising from the Plains; reprinted in Annals of the Former World, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998, page 298:

Deriveds

Wind River Glacier · Wind River Experimental Forest · Wind River Formation · Wind River Pass · Wind River Indian Reservation · Wind River Canyon · Wind River Peak · Wind River Range · Wind River Basin · Wind River meridian · Wind River Tribal College · Wind River Mountains · Wind River Arboretum