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YAZOO

• YAZOO (noun)
The noun YAZOO has 1 sense:

1. a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg

Familiarity information: YAZOO used as a noun is very rare.

• YAZOO (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Yazoo; Yazoo River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Yazoo" is a part of...):

Magnolia State; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)

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