Murchison

[ mur-chi-suhn ]

noun
  1. an intermittent river in W Australia, flowing SW to the Indian Ocean. 440 miles (708 km) long.

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How to use Murchison in a sentence

  • There was food for five days on a slightly reduced ration and the depot on Mount Murchison was forty miles away.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson
  • Mount Murchison was only dimly visible, but the weather was clear along the glacier-tongue.

    The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas Mawson

British Dictionary definitions for Murchison

Murchison

/ (ˈmɜːtʃɪsən) /


noun
  1. Sir Roderick Impey. 1792–1871, Scottish geologist: played a major role in establishing parts of the geological time scale, esp the Silurian, Permian, and Devonian periods

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