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catawba river

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Ca⋅taw⋅ba

[kuh-taw-buh]
–noun
1. a Siouan language of North and South Carolina.
2. a river flowing from W North Carolina into South Carolina, where it becomes the Wateree River. Compare Wateree.
3. Horticulture.
a. a reddish variety of grape.
b. the vine bearing this fruit, grown in the eastern U.S.
4. a light, dry, white wine made from this grape.

Origin:
1710–20, Americanism; appar. ult. < Catawba (yį́) kátapu a village name, lit., (people of) the fork; perh. via Shawnee kata⋅pa
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Catawba River  
A river rising in the Blue Ridge of western North Carolina and flowing about 402 km (250 mi) generally southward into South Carolina, where it is called the Wateree River.
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