Green River
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- proper noun
:
Río Verde
- Many families enjoy fishing along the banks of the scenic Green River.
- Green River in Utah
Examples
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Outdoor enthusiasts often visit the Green River for its stunning landscapes and recreational opportunities.
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Welcome to Green River, Utah.
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There were two hundred people at the picnic at Green River Lake, and when Oliver addressed the crowd, he was brilliant.
Fiction book (1998) -
I was her new tenant, having just signed the lease on the small wood-heated house she owned on the banks of Vermont's Green River.
Fiction book (1998) -
We spent three days climbing in and out of the swift, shallow currents of the Green River together, talking a little about religion and a lot about fly-fishing.
Fiction book (1998) -
In the Green River in Utah, temperature control and flow manipulations were not sufficient for the recovery of aquatic insects immediately downstream of Flaming Gorge Dam (Vinson 2001).
Academic text (2011) -
In the Green River, in Kentucky, mussel fertilization is limited immediately downstream of a dam in part because of the lack of an upstream supply of gametes (Moles and Layzer 2008).
Academic text (2011) -
The Green River flows south through Utah, eventually joining the Colorado River.
Synonyms
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A river in the western United States that starts in Wyoming and joins the Colorado River
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a place name formed from an adjective and the noun 'river', so a learner who knows 'green' and 'river' will readily understand it denotes a river (likely named 'Green'). This is a compositional place-name pattern common across languages (e.g. Rio Verde), though specific geographic details (that it rises in Wyoming and flows to the Colorado) are not inferable from the words alone.
Etymology
Green River probably got its name from the green color of its water and the plants along its banks. So the words green and river together simply describe the place, meaning 'a river with green water'.