colorado river

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colorado river - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Colorado River
      n 1: a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico
           [syn: Colorado, Colorado River]
      2: an important river in the southwestern United States; rises
         in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows
         southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through
         the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip
         of Nevada, then forming the border between California and
         Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the
         Gulf of California; the main source of water in the
         southwestern United States [syn: Colorado, Colorado   River
         ]