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WYOMING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east
Synonyms:
Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Wyoming"):
Yellowstone; Yellowstone River (a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park)
Teton Range (a mountain range in northwest Wyoming; contains the Grand Teton)
Snake; Snake River (a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition)
North Platte; North Platte River (a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River)
Little Missouri; Little Missouri River (a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota)
Little Bighorn; Little Bighorn River; Little Horn (a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand)
Green; Green River (a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River)
Black Hills (mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore)
Bighorn; Bighorn River (a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana)
Rock Springs (a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border)
Laramie (a university town in southeast Wyoming)
Lander (a town in central Wyoming)
Jackson (a town in western Wyoming)
capital of Wyoming; Cheyenne (the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state)
Casper (a city of east central Wyoming on the North Platte river)
Black Hills (mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming)
Yellowstone National Park (the first national park in the United States; located in the border area between Wyoming and Montana and Idaho; spectacular wilderness; famous for Old Faithful geyser and for buffalo and bears)
Grand Teton National Park (a national park in Wyoming featuring mountains)
Holonyms ("Wyoming" 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)
Context examples:
The findings, according to the scientists, suggest that ancient soils from a site in modern-day Wyoming acted as a source of atmospheric carbon dioxide, emitting the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, not a sink (trapping and storing carbon underground).
(Clues found on how soils may respond to climate change, National Science Foundation)
For example, one such group, the turacos (‘banana eaters’) are fruit-eating birds which are only found in the forests and savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, but fossils of an early turaco relative have been found in modern-day Wyoming, in the northern United States.
(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)
One such large granite body, the 2.62 billion-year-old Wyoming batholith, extends more than 125 miles across central Wyoming.
(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)
A new study by University of Wyoming researchers suggests scientists can go back to the past to study present-day solidified magma chambers where the erosion has removed overlying rock, exposing granite underpinnings.
(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)
