Gila
See also: gila
English
Etymology
From Spanish Gila, from a native (Yuma?) name.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Gila
- A 649-mile (1,044 km) tributary of the Colorado River which flows through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States.
Derived terms
Noun
Gila (plural Gilas)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1998, Rex Johnson, Ron Smorynski, Fly-fishing in Southern New Mexico (→ISBN), page 99: