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Definition of Purus river

1. Noun. A Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Purus River

Literary usage of Purus river

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"He believed that vast region was at one time a lake, bounded on the north-west by a range of hills which separated the Amaru-mayu from the purus river, ..."

2. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1919)
"After considering the different plans for ascending the purus river, Mr. Sterling decided to rely on the unscheduled but rather frequent river steamers for ..."

3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... now extinct or represented only by the Pamary or Pau- mary, but formerly living along the purus river (qv) in western Brazil. They were naked savages, ..."

4. Report by United States Board on Geographic Names, United States Geographic Board (1916)
"Purslane; Run, branch of Potomac Biver, Allegany County, Md. (Not Pusley.) Purus; River. South America, tributary to the Amazon. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"... now extinct or represented only by the Pamary or Pau- mary, but formerly living along the purus river (qv) in western Brazil. They were naked savages, ..."

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