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lone-star state
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lone-star state has 1 sense
- lone-star state(n = noun.location) texas, tx - the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; Array has parts: chisholm trail, big bend, big bend national park, guadalupe mountains national park, abilene, amarillo, arlington, austin, capital of texas, beaumont, brownsville, bryan, corpus christi, dallas, del rio, el paso, fort worth, galveston, galveston island, garland, houston, laredo, lubbock, lufkin, mcallen, midland, odessa, paris, plano, san angelo, san antonio, sherman, texarkana, tyler, victoria, waco, wichita falls, chihuahuan desert, brazos, brazos river, canadian, canadian river, colorado, colorado river, galveston bay, guadalupe mountains, llano estacado, pecos, pecos river, red, red river, sabine, sabine river, trinity river
is a part of southwest, southwestern united states, america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa, gulf states
is a kind of american state
is a member of confederacy, confederate states, confederate states of america, dixie, dixieland, south
CIDE DICTIONARY
lone-star state, prop. n.
Texas; -- a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used on its flag and seal when it was a republic. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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