Snake River
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- proper noun
- /ˈsneɪk ˈrɪvər/
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río Snake
- The two major legal battles facing the Nez Perce tribe are securing adequate flows of water in the Snake River watershed and upholding a duty of fiduciary trust on behalf of the U.S. government.
- Snake River watershed
- lower Snake River
Examples
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For example, the eastern Washington portion of the lower Snake River watershed experienced a tripling of wheat per acre yields from 1910 to 1987.
Academic text (2005) -
The Nez Perce Tribe encounters extreme differences in who controls, profits, and grows the agricultural economy throughout the lower Snake River watershed.
Academic text (2005) -
Remember the trip down the Snake River when I was 12?
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After we cross the Snake River, each of you will have an opportunity for self discovery.
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So he crossed the Snake River and climbed the highest mountain.
Academic text (1991) -
From a ridge overlooking the Snake River, we could see the Grand Teton mountains, resplendent in the moonlight.
Academic text (1991) -
East of Grand View, south of the Snake River, nighthawks swoop the roads for gnats, silent on the wing like owls.
Fiction book (1998) -
As a consequence, nest predation is more severe in the Snake River riparian zone than it would be without winter feeding of the large migratory elk population.
Academic text (2001) -
I remember the imposition of the Wind River Range in a hard, blue sky beneath white ranks of buttonhook clouds, windy hay fields on the Snake River plain, and the welcome of Russian olive trees and willows in western creek bottoms.
Fiction book (1998) -
Paddle your kayak along the Snake River as it meanders through Grand Teton National Park.
Synonyms
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A large river in the western United States that flows from Wyoming to the Columbia River
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward place name formed from a proper name + the generic noun 'river', so a learner who knows 'Snake' (as a name) and 'river' will readily infer it denotes a river called "Snake." The naming pattern X + river is cross-linguistically common, making the basic meaning transparent even if the specific geographic details are not derivable from the words.
Etymology
Snake River may get its name from the river's long, twisting course that looks like a 'snake'. So the name points to its snake-like shape.