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willamette

/wəˈlæmət/

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What does willamette mean?

proper noun

  1. A river in Oregon, United States, a major tributary of the Columbia River.

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/wəˈlæmət/

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/ˌwɪləˈmɛt/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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My homestead is only 25 miles inland and is always several degrees cooler in summer than the Willamette Valley.
Steve SolomonGardening without irrigation : $b or without much, anywayProject Gutenberg ebook #4512
As the Willamette is one of the most foodful of valleys, so is the Columbia one of the most foodful of rivers.
John MuirSteep TrailsProject Gutenberg ebook #326
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They have been used successfully in the Willamette Valley of Oregon to eat the underbrush off the land, doing for nothing that for which the farmers pay Chinese laborers twenty-five to forty dollars per acre.
Bolton HallThree Acres and LibertyProject Gutenberg ebook #4509