gila river

1. 1.

   a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River

   SynonymsGila

   Broaderriver

   Part ofNew MexicoArizona

Questions about gila river

What does gila river mean?

gila river means "a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River".

What is another word for gila river?

Close synonyms include Gila. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gila river a common word?

gila river is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.