platte : Idioms & Phrases


boy orator of the platte

  • noun United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
    Bryan; Great Commoner; William Jennings Bryan.
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north platte

  • noun a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River
    North Platte.
  • noun a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River
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north platte river

  • noun a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River
    North Platte.
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platte river

  • noun a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
    Platte.
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platte river penstemon

  • noun erect plant with blue-violet flowers in rings near tips of stems; Idaho to Utah and Wyoming
    Penstemon cyananthus.
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south platte

  • noun a tributary of the Platte River
    South Platte.
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south platte river

  • noun a tributary of the Platte River
    South Platte.
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