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Meaning of Gila | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈhiː.lə

Definitions

  1. A 649-mile (1,044 km) tributary of the Colorado River which flows through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States.
  2. A Gila monster.
  3. A census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico
  4. A Gila trout.

Equivalents

العربية جيلا
Français gila
Português gila

Examples

“Some of its tributaries rise in the mountains to the south, in the territory belonging to the republic of Mexico, but the Gila gathers the greater part of its waters from a great plateau on the northeast.”
“On that map the Colorado River headed near the headwaters of the Del Norte (Rio Grande) and ran almost straight southwest to the Gulf of California. The Gila joined it at right angles, precisely at its mouth.”
“The dealers in live Gilas were paying local trappers twenty-five to fifty cents an inch; in turn the lizards were being sold to out-of-state dealers at one to two dollars an inch.”
“In addition, area streams containing Gilas provide potential for far more fishing than any brown trout water — first, because the Gilas ...”
“There were trout, they were small, and they were not Gilas.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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