Ouachita

American  

[wosh-i-taw, waw-shi-] / ˈwɒʃ ɪˌtɔ, ˈwɔ ʃɪ- /

Or Washita

noun

plural

Ouachitas,

plural

Ouachita

1. a river flowing SE from W Arkansas through NE Louisiana to the Red River. 605 miles (975 km) long.

2. a member of a former North American Indian tribe, apparently of the Caddoan stock, of NE Louisiana.

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Ouachita British  

/ ˈwɒʃɪˌtɔː /

noun

1. a river in the S central US, rising in the Ouachita Mountains and flowing east, south, and southeast into the Red River in E Louisiana. Length: 974 km (605 miles)

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Example Sentences

The founder and publisher of the Ouachita Citizen weekly newspaper, Pryor started his political career in 1960 with his election to the Arkansas House.

From Seattle Times

Carbeck and colleagues from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, University of Alaska and Ouachita Baptist University used the power of whole-genome sequencing to decode the entire song sparrow genome and unlock its secrets.

From Science Daily

McCurtain County is in far southeast Oklahoma, in the forested foothills of the Ouachita mountains, bordering Arkansas and Texas.

From Washington Times

With its rolling, forested hills in the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains, the area has become a tourism hotbed attracting a steady stream of visitors from the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

From Seattle Times

The Ouachita Electric Cooperative in Arkansas is part of the country's sprawling rural electric co-op system in which ratepayers are both members and owners of their utility and play a role in decision-making.

From Salon