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• Indus
  Indus

  noun

  a river in S Asia, flowing from W Tibet through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. 1,900 miles (3,060 km) long.
• indus.
  indus.

  abbreviation

  industrial.

Indus

¹ American  

[in-duhs] / ˈɪn dəs /

noun

1. a river in S Asia, flowing from W Tibet through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea. 1,900 miles (3,060 km) long.

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Indus ² American  

[in-duhs] / ˈɪn dəs /

noun

Astronomy.

• Indi
  genitive

1. the Indian, a southern constellation between Grus and Pavo.

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indus. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. industrial.

2. industry.

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Indus ¹ British  

/ ˈɪndəs /

noun

1. a faint constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Telescopium and Tucano

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Indus ² British  

/ ˈɪndəs /

noun

1. a river in S Asia, rising in SW Tibet in the Kailas Range of the Himalayas and flowing northwest through Kashmir, then southwest across Pakistan to the Arabian Sea: important throughout history, esp for the Indus Civilization (about 3000 to 1500 _bc ), and for irrigation. Length: about 2900 km (1800 miles)

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Etymology

Origin of Indus

< New Latin, Latin

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Example Sentences

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Indus Indi

“Revelations like this could invigorate native Amerindians in the same way that the Indus Valley Civilization stirred people in India,” Mr. Kean writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

It said India's construction of hydroelectric projects on the Indus and associated rivers had to conform to the 1960 treaty.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

The largest losses occurred in heavily populated downstream basins where irrigation demands are high, including the Ganges-Brahmaputra, Indus and Amu Darya basins.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

The bronze sculpture - known as the Dancing girl from Mohenjo-daro - shows a girl standing with one hand on her hip and is one of the most recognisable artefacts from the Indus Valley civilisation.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

The earliest farming communities there in the seventh millennium B.C. utilized wheat, barley, and other crops that had been previously domesticated in the Fertile Crescent and that evidently spread to the Indus Valley through Iran.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Haines won the seat of Indi as an independent in 2019, and has since become a prominent member of the crossbench, building rapport across Australia's increasingly divided political spectrum.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Haines entered parliament as an independent lawmaker in 2019, representing the sprawling seat of Indi.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Over billions of years, Epsilon Indi Ab is expected to cool and eventually become even colder than Jupiter.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

Doctors argued that Indi had no awareness of her surroundings and was suffering and should be allowed to die peacefully.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2023

Jerdon gives, on the authority of Blyth, another species, Platanista Indi, or the Indus porpoise, but Dr. Anderson has conclusively proved that this is identical with the Gangetic dolphin.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale

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