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Berbice

American  
[bur-bees] / bɜrˈbis /

noun

  1. a river in E Guyana, flowing NE to the Atlantic Ocean. About 370 miles (595 km) long.


Example Sentences

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The venture will focus drilling this year on the Corentyne block, the most promising of its three blocks, including Demerara and Berbice.

From Reuters • May 6, 2022

Helen is related to the Camerons of Glen Nevis: John Cameron, her great, great, great-grandfather, came to Berbice in the early 1800s and set up a plantation with his kinsman Donald Charles Cameron.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2019

I tell her about Cromarty and she laughs at the pronunciation of a well-known place from her childhood, near Cotton Tree in Berbice.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2019

After emigrating from Berbice, Guyana, in 1987, he began tending to the birds belonging to the elder statesmen in the park.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2015

Berbice was of course utterly ruined for a time.

From The West Indies and the Spanish Main by Rodway, James