saint mary lake
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.15 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A lake in Glacier National Park, Glacier County, Montana, United States.
Example Sentences
- "Such outcrops were noted, however, in traversing the plains from Cutbank river to Saint Mary lake, and others were found about the mountain slopes west of Saint Mary lakes, up Swift Current Valley, on Kennedy creek, about Chief mountain, and on Belly river. [...] Just northeast of the northern end of Saint Mary lake Weller collected from a gray sandstone and according to Stanton's determination obtained Inoceramus sp., possibly young of I. labiatus, Mactra emmonsi Meek? Tellina modesta Meek, Donax cuneata Stanton, Corbula sp., Turritella sp., and Lunatia sp."
Etymology
By surface analysis, Saint Mary (unincorporated community in Montana) + lake. Compare St. Mary Lake and Saint Mary's Lake.
Inflected Forms
St. Mary Lake (alternative, abbreviation)