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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of the United States rising in the Rocky Mountains as various headstreams that join to form the Missouri proper in southwest Montana. The longest river in the United States, it flows about 3,750 km (2,350 mi) in a meandering course to the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri. French explorers first reached the river in the late 1600s, and Lewis and Clark followed it on their journey westward (1804–1806).
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- noun the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis
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Examples
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“Silly, that’s what we call the Missouri River,” she laughed, crinkling up her nose.
PIONEER SUMMER Deborah Hopkinson 2010
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“Silly, that’s what we call the Missouri River,” she laughed, crinkling up her nose.
PIONEER SUMMER Deborah Hopkinson 2010
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“Silly, that’s what we call the Missouri River,” she laughed, crinkling up her nose.
PIONEER SUMMER Deborah Hopkinson 2010
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Significant sections of rural northwest Missouri are underwater as result of flooding on the Missouri River, which is projected to continue for weeks and could eventually extend south toward the Kansas City area and into central Missouri.
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Significant sections of rural northwest Missouri are underwater as result of flooding on the Missouri River, which is projected to continue for weeks and could eventually extend south toward the Kansas City area and into central Missouri.
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I think that in talking -- I talked with Rob Marciano in the last hour, and we know, of course, the National Weather Service, others have been monitoring the river stage of the Missouri River, which is really the cause of what you're seeing here.
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Back then, this river, the Missouri River, which is now in some back yards of some people who live nearby, rose to almost 32 feet.
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But how did the common name of Missouri River cutthroat trout become westslope cutthroat trout?
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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But how did the common name of Missouri River cutthroat trout become westslope cutthroat trout?
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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But how did the common name of Missouri River cutthroat trout become westslope cutthroat trout?
Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002
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