gila
/ˈhiː.lə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A 649-mile (1,044 km) tributary of the Colorado River which flows through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States.
name
noun
A Gila monster.
noun
A Gila trout.
Example Sentences
- "You gila (mad) or what? Our government good government okay?"
- "Some of its tributaries rise in the mountains to the south, in the territory belonging to the republic of Mexico, but the Gila gathers the greater part of its waters from a great plateau on the northeast."
- "On that map the Colorado River headed near the headwaters of the Del Norte (Rio Grande) and ran almost straight southwest to the Gulf of California. The Gila joined it at right angles, precisely at its mouth."
- "The dealers in live Gilas were paying local trappers twenty-five to fifty cents an inch; in turn the lizards were being sold to out-of-state dealers at one to two dollars an inch."
- "In addition, area streams containing Gilas provide potential for far more fishing than any brown trout water — first, because the Gilas ..."
- "There were trout, they were small, and they were not Gilas."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Gila, -
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Gila chub
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Gila County
Gila manroot
Gila monster
Gila National Forest
Gila River
Gila springsnail