Gila

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Etymology

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From Spanish Gila, from a native (Yuma?) name.

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Gila

  1. A 649-mile (1,044 km) tributary of the Colorado River which flows through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States.
  2. A census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico

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Noun

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Gila (plural Gilas)

  1. A Gila monster.
    • 1964, Will Barker, Familiar reptiles and amphibians of America, page 92:
      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.
  2. A Gila trout.
    • 1998, Rex Johnson, Ron Smorynski, Fly-fishing in Southern New Mexico, →ISBN, page 99:
      In addition, area streams containing Gilas provide potential for far more fishing than any brown trout water — first, because the Gilas ...
    • 2013, Bob W. Willis, Trout Adventures, →ISBN, page 109:
      There were trout, they were small, and they were not Gilas.

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