(n) an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States, Syn.Colorado River
(n) a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner
(n) tall-growing annual of southwestern United States widely grown as green manure; yields a strong tough bast fiber formerly used by Indians for cordage, Syn.Sesbania exaltata
(n) tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown; older trees become columnar with lower branches sweeping downward, Syn.Colorado blue spruce, silver spruce, Picea pungens
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
(Zool.) A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Geol.) A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region. [ 1913 Webster ]
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