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Definition of Iguassu
1. Noun. A large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil.
Group relationships: Argentina, Argentine Republic, Brasil, Brazil, Federative Republic Of Brazil
Generic synonyms: Falls, Waterfall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Iguassu
Literary usage of Iguassu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Around and about South America: Twenty Months of Quest and Query by Frank Vincent (1890)
"The iguassu down-pour, with its beautiful greenish-white water, drops two hundred
and fifteen feet over sheer precipices of dark rock, and throws out and ..."
2. The South American Tour by Annie Smith Peck (1913)
"CHAPTER XXV THE iguassu FALLS AND PARAGUAY IMPORTANT ARGENTINE CITIES AMONG the
nations of the ancient or the modern world, not one do we know with a ..."
3. Around & about South America: Apéndice al folleto los treinta y tres by Luis Melián Lafinur, Frank Vincent (1897)
"ABOUT noon, on the fifth day from Posadas, we anchor at the mouth of the iguassu,
here a river about a thousand feet in width and seventy feet in depth, ..."
4. The New Student's Reference Work for Teachers, Students and Families by Chandler Belden Beach, Frank Morton McMurry (1917)
"It is navigable for 705 miles, and has rapids over loo miles in length immediately
above the junction with the iguassu. Paraná also is a state of Brazil ..."
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