SNAKE RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Snake River mean? 

• SNAKE RIVER (noun)
  The noun SNAKE RIVER has 1 sense:

1. a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

  Familiarity information: SNAKE RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNAKE RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Snake; Snake River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Meronyms (parts of "Snake River"):

Twin; Twin Falls (a waterfall in the Snake River in southern Idaho)

Holonyms ("Snake River" is a part of...):

Gem State; ID; Id.; Idaho (a state in the Rocky Mountains)

Beaver State; OR; Ore.; Oregon; Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)