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TEX.

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico

Synonyms:

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Tex."):

Lufkin (a town in eastern Texas)

McAllen (a town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande)

Midland (a town in west central Texas)

Odessa (a city in western Texas)

Paris (a town in northeastern Texas)

Plano (a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas))

San Angelo (a town in west central Texas; formerly a notorious frontier town)

San Antonio (a city of south central Texas; site of the Alamo; site of several military bases and a popular haven for vacationers)

Sherman (a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border)

Texarkana (a town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas)

Tyler (a town in northeast Texas)

Victoria (a town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio)

Waco (a city in east central Texas)

Wichita Falls (a city in north central Texas near the Oklahoma border)

Chihuahuan Desert (a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico)

Brazos; Brazos River (a river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico)

Canadian; Canadian River (a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma)

Colorado; Colorado River (a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico)

Galveston Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston)

Guadalupe Mountains (a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains)

Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)

Pecos; Pecos River (a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas)

Red; Red River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana)

Sabine; Sabine River (a river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico)

Trinity River (a river in eastern Texas that is formed near Dallas and flows generally southeastward to Galveston Bay)

Chisholm Trail (a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s)

Big Bend (a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande)

Big Bend National Park (a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife)

Guadalupe Mountains National Park (a national park in Texas that has the highest point in Texas; includes desert wilderness and the ancient Apache hunting grounds)

Abilene (a city in central Texas)

Amarillo (a city in the northern panhandle of Texas)

Arlington (a city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth)

Austin; capital of Texas (state capital of Texas on the Colorado River; site of the University of Texas)

Beaumont (a city of southeastern Texas near Houston)

Brownsville (a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande near its mouth into the Gulf of Mexico; has a channel that accommodates oceangoing ships)

Bryan (a town of east central Texas)

Corpus Christi (a city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico)

Dallas (a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields)

Del Rio (a town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande to the west of San Antonio)

El Paso (a city in western Texas on the Mexican border; located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande across from the Mexican city of Juarez)

Fort Worth (a city in northeastern Texas (just to the west of Dallas); a major industrial center)

Galveston (a town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island)

Galveston Island (an island at the entrance of Galveston Bay)

Garland (a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas))

Houston (the largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Laredo (a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande)

Lubbock (a city in northwest Texas to the south of Amarillo)

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

Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)

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 ("Tex." 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)

Credits