Apalachicola

American  

[ap-uh-lach-uh-koh-luh] / ˌæp əˌlætʃ əˈkoʊ lə /

noun

1. a river flowing S from NW Florida into the Gulf of Mexico. 90 miles (145 km) long.

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Example Sentences

Surge warnings were posted for hundreds of miles of shoreline, from Sarasota in the north through Tampa and stretching to the sport fishing haven of Indian Pass at the western end of Apalachicola Bay.

From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2023

The only honey produced comes on rivers between Savannah, Georgia and Apalachicola, Florida.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2023

McGillis had worked with officials at the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve for several years, studying the oyster decline.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 15, 2022

For $1.9 million: A 1926 Tudor Revival house in Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.; a Spanish-style home in Los Angeles; and an 1895 mansion in Apalachicola, Fla.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

The town of Apalache in which Soto spent the winter 1539-40 may have been on the river Catahoche otherwise called of Apalachicola, or on the Alibama, which runs into the Mobille.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert