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Meramec

American  
[mer-uh-mak] / ˈmɛr əˌmæk /

noun

  1. a river in SE Missouri, flowing generally E to the Mississippi River below St. Louis. 207 miles (333 km) long.


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I had a medium-brown driveway that used chert road metal from the Meramec River region in Missouri.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 19, 2023

A new Corps plan for the Lower Meramec River, hit by three record floods since August 2015, endorses wetland restoration and property buyouts.

From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2020

The St. Louis suburb of Arnold, Missouri, has bought out hundreds of homes that once lined the Meramec River, which flows into the Mississippi.

From Washington Times • Apr. 28, 2020

But the purchase put her children in public schools ranked among the top in the state, and the Meramec river was a whole two miles away.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2018

The two caverns thus variously designated are on the Meramec River, 14 miles north of Salem.

From Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Fowke, Gerard

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