gila : Idioms & Phrases

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gila desert

  • noun a desert area in southern Arizona
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gila monster

  • noun large orange and black lizard of southwestern United States; not dangerous unless molested
    Heloderma suspectum.
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Gi"la mon"ster
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  1. (Zoöl.) A large tuberculated lizard (Heloderma suspectum) native of the dry plains of Arizona, New Mexico, etc. It is the only lizard known to have venomous teeth.
Webster 1913

gila river

  • noun a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River
    Gila.
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