Orinoco
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- proper noun
- /ˌɔːrɪˈnoʊkoʊ/
- I've come across lots of vampire bats up along the Orinoco River.
- Orinoco River
- Orinoco Belt
Examples
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In addition, a permanent waterway, the Casiquiare Canal, links the southern headwaters of the Orinoco with the northern headwaters of the Rio Negro.
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The Orinoco is a significant river that flows through Venezuela before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.
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I remember when I was on the Orinoco.
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There is no such island near the mouth of the Orinoco today, nor was there in Defoe's time.
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Nor do the sixteenth-century sources from the Orinoco, although the Spanish had lived there since the early part of the century.
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And we had all the merchandise stashed in the Orinoco River Delta.
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What happened is BP reclassified the heavy oil reserves of the Orinoco, which as you all know, are bigger than all the oil in Saudi Arabia.
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In theory, with good timing and patience, a small canoe could travel from the Orinoco estuary to the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, one of the few journeys apparently never made by some crazed adventurer.
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Our tower stands in the middle of a small stream feeding into the Guarico River, a tributary of the Orinoco passing through the Ilanos, or highly seasonal flatlands, of central Venezuela.
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Vials of water from the Thames, Seine, Elbe, Rhine, Orinoco, Ganges, and Nile Rivers were also emptied during the ceremony.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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A large river in northern South America that flows through Venezuela and Colombia into the Atlantic Ocean
Compounds
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A large river in northern South America that flows through Venezuela and Colombia into the Atlantic Ocean
Surface Forms
Etymology
Orinoco probably comes from a local indigenous word meaning 'place of canoes' or 'river of paddles', so a helpful image is people paddling by canoe along the long river — that is why the name fits this great waterway.