Definition of Pecos

1. Noun. A tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas.

Exact synonyms: Pecos River
Group relationships: Land Of Enchantment, New Mexico, Nm, Lone-star State, Texas, Tx
Generic synonyms: River

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pecos

Pearl Buck
Pearl Mae Bailey
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearly Gates
Pearson
Pearson's long-clawed shrew
Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
Peary
Peasant's Revolt
Peccari angulatus
Pecheneg
Pechenegs
Peckham
Pecksniffery
Pecos (current term)
Pecos River
Pecquet's cistern
Pecquet's duct
Pecquet's reservoir
Pecten irradians
Pecten magellanicus
Pectinibranchia
Pectinidae
Pedaliaceae
Pediamycin
Pediapred
Pediculidae

Literary usage of Pecos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"Henshaw and Mr. EW Nelson spent three months in New Mexico, on the Upper Pecos River which cuts through the southern end of the Rocky Mountains between the ..."

2. Records of the Past by Records of the Past Exploration Society (1905)
"Pecos practically held its own up to the end of the XVII Century. ... In 1840 the last steps were taken by which Pecos was abandoned and the group as a ..."

3. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"The Trans-Pecos ranges do not have that continuity which marks the main mountain ranges of the Pacific Cordillera. They exhibit a great variety of slopes ..."

4. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by John Avery Lomax (1918)
"THE Pecos QUEEN WHERE the Pecos River winds and turns in its journey to the sea, From its white walls of sand and rock striving ever to be free, ..."

5. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1859)
"There is but little growth until the approach to the mouth of the Pecos ... Soft-shell turtle Junction of the Rio Bravo del Norte and the Pecos. abound. ..."

6. Through Our Unknown Southwest: The Wonderland of the United States-- Little by Agnes Christina Laut (1913)
"Yet when I went into the Pecos National Forest, I put on the heaviest ... and at the headwaters of the Pecos, you are between 10000 and 13000 feet high, ..."

7. Spanish Mission Churches of New Mexico by Le Baron Bradford Prince (1915)
"CHAPTER XXIX Pecos If the question should be asked, "What was the largest town in the present United States four hundred years ago? ..."

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