Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of the east-central United States rising in western Ohio and flowing about 765 km (475 mi) generally southwest across Indiana and southward on the Indiana-Illinois border to the Ohio River.
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- noun a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana
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Examples
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The commander at Vincennes, on the Wabash River in the pays des Illinois, predicted a “storm” about to break over the country.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Indiana officials have installed a 1,177-foot chain link fence measuring eight feet high, with a 494-foot debris catch fence to prevent the transfer of Asian carp between the Wabash River and Maumee River.
Mark Biel: One If by Land, Two If by Sea Mark Biel 2011
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Indiana officials have installed a 1,177-foot chain link fence measuring eight feet high, with a 494-foot debris catch fence to prevent the transfer of Asian carp between the Wabash River and Maumee River.
Mark Biel: One If by Land, Two If by Sea Mark Biel 2011
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The commander at Vincennes, on the Wabash River in the pays des Illinois, predicted a “storm” about to break over the country.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The commander at Vincennes, on the Wabash River in the pays des Illinois, predicted a “storm” about to break over the country.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The commander at Vincennes, on the Wabash River in the pays des Illinois, predicted a “storm” about to break over the country.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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She said her office has been in touch with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources about the possibility that carp could get from a tributary of the Wabash River near Fort Wayne, Ind. into the Maumee River through flooding and eventually get into Lake Erie.
Dick Durbin, Debbie Stabenow: Asian Carp Need To Be Stopped Quickly 2010
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A bighead carp was caught in Lake Calumet, and Asian carp were found spawning in the Wabash River in Illinois, not far from a connection to the Maumee River, which feeds into Lake Erie.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow: Science Says Asian Carp Are a Serious Threat to the Great Lakes Sen. Debbie Stabenow 2010
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The dense forests crowning our hillsides and hollow, like most of the Shawnee hill region from the Mississippi to the Wabash River, once rivaled Appalachia or the Ozarks for plant diversity.
Reclaiming Earth Day: Guerilla Reclamation Actions in the Coalfields 2010
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And this week, witha not-so-public admission that there is a sizable population of carp in the Wabash River … and they are spawning!
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