Virgin River

English

Proper noun

Virgin River

1. A tributary of the Colorado River in Utah, Nevada and Arizona, United States.
   • 1954, Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 163:

     Of the parks, Zion is carved in the southwestern flank of the Markágunt by one fork of the Virgin River, and Zion National Monument is carved by the other.

Synonyms

• Rio Virgen

Derived terms

• Virgin River brittlebush (Encelia virginensis)
• Virgin River chub (Gila seminuda)
• Virgin River cryptantha (Oreocarya virginensis)
• Virgin River Gorge

 

Further reading

• Category:Virgin River on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons