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"the Mississippi River delta" "the Nile delta"nouna low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
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nounan object shaped like an equilateral triangletype of:
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nounthe 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
Definition that contains delta
- wu a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta
- cairo the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just to the south of the Nile delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs
- para port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
- alexandria the chief port of Egypt; located on the western edge of the Nile delta on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by Alexander the Great; the capital of ancient Egypt
- rangoon the capital and largest city of Myanmar; located in the south near the Irrawaddy river delta
- canton a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
- guangzhou a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
- mekong an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea
- deltoid triangular or suggesting a capital delta, with a point at the apex
- astrakhan a city in southwestern Russia on the delta of the Volga River