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YAZOO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg
Synonyms:
Yazoo; Yazoo River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("Yazoo" is a part of...):
Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS (a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War)