URUGUAY RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Uruguay River mean? 

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

1. a South American river that arises in southern Brazil and flows south to the Rio de la Plata; the northern section forms the boundary between Argentina and Brazil and the southern section forms the boundary between Argentina and Uruguay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• URUGUAY RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A South American river that arises in southern Brazil and flows south to the Rio de la Plata; the northern section forms the boundary between Argentina and Brazil and the southern section forms the boundary between Argentina and Uruguay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)