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Definition of Murrumbidgee
1. Noun. A river of southeastern Australia; flows westward into the Murray River.
Group relationships: Australia, Commonwealth Of Australia, Australia
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of Murrumbidgee
Literary usage of Murrumbidgee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australia Visited and Revisited: A Narrative of Recent Travels and Old by Samuel Mossman, Thomas Banister (1853)
"... of droughts—Necessity for the colonists to husband the water—Proposal to
navigate the Murray—Prospectus of a steamboat company—murrumbidgee district—The ..."
2. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1890)
"Diverging from his former route, instead of descending the Macquarie, or Darling,
River he struck the murrumbidgee about 400 miles above its junction with ..."
3. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1888)
"Diverging from his former route, instead of descending the Macquarie, or Darling,
River he struck the murrumbidgee about 400 miles above its junction with ..."
4. The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: From the by William Howitt (1865)
"In 1819, the year after Mr. Oxley's discovery of the country between Mount Harris
and the Port Macquarie, the river murrumbidgee amongst the mountains, ..."
5. Irrigation Practice and Engineering by Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1916)
"A.—Lifting mechanism for sluice gates of Laguna Diversion Works California end
of Yuma Project, Ariz. FIG. B.—Scouring sluices and murrumbidgee Diversion ..."
6. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1886)
"At the last monthly meeting of this Society, I exhibited four species of Fishes
from the streams forming the upper waters of the murrumbidgee. ..."
7. The Boy Travellers in Australasia: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to by Thomas Wallace Knox (1889)
"DISCOVERY OF THE LACHLAN, MACQUARIE, murrumbidgee, AND MURRAY ... "The murrumbidgee
River was discovered in 1815, and the Murray in 1824, by Mr. Hamilton ..."
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