Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 965 km (600 mi) long, rising in a confluence of streams along the Guatemala-Mexico border and flowing northwest through southeast Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Examples
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This is the third time since 1987 that the Mexican government has made plans to dam the Usumacinta, which is the longest river in Mesoamerica and the most torrential in Mexico.
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Its founder, the Mexican poet Homero Aridjis, says the Usumacinta is the lifeblood of the Lacandón jungle in southeastern Mexico.
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The Maya boy is educated in Spanish at school, even though he speaks a Maya language at home, in his hamlet on a bank of the Usumacinta River.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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The Maya boy is educated in Spanish at school, even though he speaks a Maya language at home, in his hamlet on a bank of the Usumacinta River.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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As the launch from Yaxchilan to Frontera Corozal ploughed the Usumacinta the crocodile was in the shallows mouth agape yet no electrical wire extended from the beast to the impenetrable jungle but it seemed strange that that croc was always there opening his jaws as this launch passed.
A Prison of the Mind 2009
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As the launch from Yaxchilan to Frontera Corozal ploughed the Usumacinta the crocodile was in the shallows mouth agape yet no electrical wire extended from the beast to the impenetrable jungle but it seemed strange that that croc was always there opening his jaws as this launch passed.
A Prison of the Mind 2009
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As the launch from Yaxchilan to Frontera Corozal ploughed the Usumacinta the crocodile was in the shallows mouth agape yet no electrical wire extended from the beast to the impenetrable jungle but it seemed strange that that croc was always there opening his jaws as this launch passed.
A Prison of the Mind 2009
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As the launch from Yaxchilan to Frontera Corozal ploughed the Usumacinta the crocodile was in the shallows mouth agape yet no electrical wire extended from the beast to the impenetrable jungle but it seemed strange that that croc was always there opening his jaws as this launch passed.
A Prison of the Mind 2009
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As the launch from Yaxchilan to Frontera Corozal ploughed the Usumacinta the crocodile was in the shallows mouth agape yet no electrical wire extended from the beast to the impenetrable jungle but it seemed strange that that croc was always there opening his jaws as this launch passed.
A Prison of the Mind 2009
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As the launch from Yaxchilan to Frontera Corozal ploughed the Usumacinta the crocodile was in the shallows mouth agape yet no electrical wire extended from the beast to the impenetrable jungle but it seemed strange that that croc was always there opening his jaws as this launch passed.
A Prison of the Mind 2009
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