Missouri
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- proper noun
- /mɪˈzʊəri/
:
río Misuri
- The Missouri River is the longest river in the United States, flowing into the Mississippi River at St. Louis.
- the Missouri River
- Missouri and Mississippi
- Upper Missouri
So right now what you have in the the Missouri, Mississippi is runoff.
- So right now what you have in the the Missouri, Mississippi is runoff.
- And we're from along the Missouri River on the the shoreline.
Examples
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See; the future of these United States is in the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
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An orphan calf followed Captain Meriwether Lewis one afternoon as he walked west beside the Missouri River.
Academic text (2002) -
Last year, I went back up the Missouri with the Major and we did pretty well.
Fiction book (1994) -
We got to get across the river to Missouri.
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Nobody goes on a honeymoon west of the Missouri.
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"I grew up in southern Missouri, but I've never been over here," he admitted.
Blog text (31) -
And then he upped and drowned himself in the Missouri River.
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With its shallow draft, the keelboat did well on such a river as the Missouri.
Fiction book (1994) -
A prolonged drought in the 1930s, followed by flooding of the Missouri in the 1940s, resulted in a series of dams.
Academic text (1992) -
Quail, skunks, raccoons, and possums were spotted in large numbers on levees along the Missouri and Mississippi.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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A very long river in the United States that flows southeast from Montana to the Mississippi near St Louis
Compounds
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A very long river in the United States that flows southeast from Montana to the Mississippi near St Louis
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An 1820 US law letting Missouri be a slave state, making Maine free, and limiting slavery in western lands
A river in the north-central United States that starts in northeast Wyoming and joins the Missouri River in North Dakota
A small wildflower from the central United States with bright yellow flower clusters that blooms in late summer
A vine from central and southwestern United States and Mexico that makes small hard spotted green fruit you cannot eat
A plant from south central United States with large yellow flowers that open in the evening
Surface Forms
Etymology
Missouri the river was named after the native Missouri tribe, and the name comes from an old Native American word meaning 'people of the big canoes', which fits a large river used for canoe travel.