English Dictionary

Rio Grande

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɹiːoʊˈɡɹænd/

固有名詞

A major river in the United States and Mexico, starting in Colorado, flowing through New Mexico, and forming the boundary between Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas for most of its length.

日本語の意味

アメリカ合衆国とメキシコにまたがる主要な河川。コロラド州で起源し、ニューメキシコ州を流れ、大部分でテキサス州とメキシコ（チワワ州、コアウイラ州、ヌエボ・レオン州、タマウリパス州）との国境を形成している。

Scientists collected water samples along the Rio Grande to study pollution levels.

科学者たちは汚染レベルを調べるため、米国とメキシコの多くの区間で国境を形成する主要な河川に沿って水のサンプルを採取した。

意味（1）

A major river in the United States and Mexico, starting in Colorado, flowing through New Mexico, and forming the boundary between Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas for most of its length.

Article V. The Boundary line between the two Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of it’s deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico; thence, westwardly, along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso) to it’s western termination; thence, northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila; (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then, to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same;) thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river, until it empties into the Rio Colorado; thence, across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific Ocean.

the Rio Grande （ canonical ）