Amazon

(noun.) mainly green tropical American parrots.

(noun.) a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles).

(noun.) (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively).

(noun.) a large strong and aggressive woman.

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• The waters of the Amazon begin to rise and the work ceases. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In British Guiana the name is given to another large, much-branched tree, and there are also other varieties in Para and along the Rio Negro, which is a tributary of the Amazon River. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The buildings are usually grouped together at a favorable spot on the banks of the Amazon or one of its tributaries. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In this locality the rubber harvest commences as soon as the Amazon falls which is usually about the first of August. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Hevea trees are scattered through the dense forests of practically every part of the Amazon Basin, a territory more than two-thirds as large as the United States. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• All of these grew in a region near the Amazon, and were hard to get on account of malarial conditions. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Para, at the mouth of the Amazon, and Manaos, a thousand miles up, are both modern cities of more than one hundred thousand population. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They left New York in September, 1887, arriving in due time at Para, proceeding thence twenty-three hundred miles up the Amazon River to Iquitos. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The trail of the explorer was more instantly lost in New York than in the vast recesses of the Amazon swamps. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• That some rivers run into the sea is beyond a doubt: such, for instance, are the Amazons, and, I think, the Oronoko and the Mississippi. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Mr. Bates, in his interesting Naturalist on the Amazons, has described analogous cases. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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