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FLORIDA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery
Synonyms:
Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Florida"):
Pensacola (a town in extreme northwest Florida)
Sarasota (a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico)
Saint Augustine; St. Augustine (a resort city in northeastern Florida; the oldest city in the United States)
Saint Petersburg; St. Petersburg (a city in western Florida on Tampa Bay; a popular winter resort)
capital of Florida; Tallahassee (capital of the state of Florida; located in northern Florida)
Tampa (a resort city in western Florida; located on Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico)
West Palm Beach (a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach; founded as a commercial center for Palm Beach)
Apalachicola; Apalachicola River (a river in northwestern Florida formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River at the Florida border)
Biscayne Bay (a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida)
Caloosahatchee; Caloosahatchee River (a river in southern Florida that flows westerly to the Gulf of Mexico; forms the western end of the Cross-Florida Waterway)
Cape Canaveral; Cape Kennedy (a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight)
Everglades (a large subtropical swamp in southern Florida that is noted for its wildlife)
cay; Florida key; key (a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida)
Kissimmee; Kissimmee River (a river of central Florida that flows southward to Lake Okeechobee)
Lake Okeechobee; Okeechobee (a lake in southeast Florida to the north of the Everglades)
Okefenokee Swamp (a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia)
Saint Johns; Saint Johns River; St. Johns; St. Johns River (a river in northeastern Florida that flows northward to Jacksonville and then eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean)
Tampa Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida)
Caloosahatchee Canal (a canal that connects Lake Okeechobee with the Caloosahatchee River in southern Florida to form part of the Cross-Florida Waterway)
Biscayne National Park (a national park in Florida having underwater coral reefs and marine life)
Everglades National Park (a national park in Florida containing an immense subtropical wilderness with mangrove swamps and rare birds and wild animals)
Daytona Beach (a resort town in northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast; hard white beaches have been used for automobile speed trials)
Fort Lauderdale (a city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations)
Fort Myers (a town in southwest Florida)
Gainesville (a university town in north central Florida)
Jacksonville (Florida's largest city; a port and important commercial center in northeastern Florida)
Key West (a town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico)
Melbourne (a resort town in east central Florida)
Miami (a city and resort in southeastern Florida on Biscayne Bay; the best known city in Florida; a haven for retirees and a refuge for Cubans fleeing Castro)
Miami Beach (a city in southeastern Florida on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; known for fashionable resort hotels)
Orlando (a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World)
Palm Beach (a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast)
Panama City (a resort and fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida)
Holonyms ("Florida" is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Gulf States (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)
Holonyms ("Florida" is a member of...):
Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)
Context examples:
GOES-R, the first of NOAA’s highly advanced geostationary weather satellites, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:42 p.m. on November 19.
(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)
My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done very well.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
While the loss of these animals is concerning for species conservation, now researchers at the University of Florida have shown that overhunting can have widespread effects on the forest itself.
(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)
A chain of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida and north of Cuba.
(Bahamas, NCI Thesaurus)
Last year, a Falcon 9 exploded on a Florida launchpad during a preflight test.
(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)
In 2018, more than 20 million tons of it floated in surface waters and became a problem to shorelines lining the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and east coast of Florida.
(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)
Cassini launched in 1997 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and arrived at Saturn in 2004.
(Cassini Spacecraft Ends Its Historic Exploration of Saturn, NASA)
Juno launched on Aug. 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)
MAVEN launched Nov. 18, 2013, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying three instrument packages.
(Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet, NASA)
But new research, led by The University of Texas at Austin and the University of South Florida (USF), found that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet may not be as stable as it seems.
(Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)
