[syn: Saint Lawrence, Saint Lawrence River, St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence River]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Saint Lawrence
n 1: Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police
to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by
presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death
on a gridiron (died in 258) [syn: Lawrence, Saint
Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Laurentius]
2: a North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence
and the North Atlantic [syn: Saint Lawrence, Saint
Lawrence River, St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence River]