ARIZONA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arizona mean? 

• ARIZONA (noun)
  The noun ARIZONA has 2 senses:

1. a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon

2. glossy snake

  Familiarity information: ARIZONA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARIZONA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Arizona"):

Grand Canyon (the enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona)

Gila; Gila River (a river that rises in western New Mexico and flows westward through southern Arizona to become a tributary of the Colorado River)

Colorado Plateau (a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner)

Colorado; Colorado River (an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States)

Cataract Canyon (a tributary of the Grand Canyon)

Sonoran Desert (a desert in southwestern Arizona)

Painted Desert (a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona)

Mohave; Mohave Desert; Mojave; Mojave Desert (a desert area in southern California and western Arizona)

Gila Desert (a desert area in southern Arizona)

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

Yuma (a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border)

Tucson (a city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges; long known as a winter and health resort but the population shift from industrial states to the Sunbelt resulted in rapid growth late in the 20th century)

Sun City (a residential suburb of Phoenix)

Prescott (a town in central Arizona)

capital of Arizona; Phoenix (the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation)

Nogales (a town in Arizona on the Mexican border opposite Nogales, Mexico)

Mesa (a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix)

Flagstaff (a town in north central Arizona; site of an important observatory)

Petrified Forest National Park (a national park in Arizona having the world's largest collection of petrified coniferous trees)

Grand Canyon National Park (a national park in Arizona including the mile deep canyon of the Colorado River which shows geologic features and fossil plants and animals)

Lake Powell (the second largest reservoir in the United States; located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River)

Lake Mead (the largest reservoir in the United States; located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River; the center of a recreational area)

Glen Canyon Dam (a large dam built in 1964 on the Colorado River in Arizona)

Holonyms ("Arizona" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Glossy snake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Arizona; genus Arizona

Hypernyms ("Arizona" is a kind of...):

reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)

Meronyms (members of "Arizona"):

Arizona elegans; glossy snake (nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales)

Holonyms ("Arizona" is a member of...):

Colubridae; family Colubridae (nonvenomous snakes; about two-thirds of all living species)

 Context examples 

Researchers from the University of Arizona say having a high body mass index, or BMI, can cause inflammation that can impair cognitive functioning in older adults.

(Body Mass Index Linked to Cognitive Decline, Voanews)

To do so, they used the twin 8.4-meter (27.6-foot) mirrors of the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO) in the mountains of southeast Arizona.

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Seismic sources as close as Lake Powell (on the border of Utah and Arizona) and as far away as Oklahoma caused vibrations in the bridge.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

With support from NSF through its Water and Environmental Technology Center, a team of University of Arizona researchers has created a simple, portable and inexpensive method for detecting extremely low levels of norovirus.

(Using a smartphone to detect norovirus, National Science Foundation)

It was discovered on Oct. 13 by observers at the Mount Lemmon Survey, an element of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona.

(Catalog of Known Near-Earth Asteroids Tops 15,000, NASA)

The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Mexico.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona and the University of California, San Diego, have proposed at least 3 different ways that the brain might encode episodic memories.

(Storing memories of recent events, NIH)

People in the Sonoran Desert and Tonto Basin, in what is today Arizona, were more culturally advanced, with irrigation, ball courts, and eventually elevated platform mounds and compounds housing elite families.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)

A new discovery by Arizona State University scientists shows that two specific metallic elements in the right kinds of clay can kill disease-causing bacteria that infect humans and animals.

(Scientists discover how blue and green clays kill bacteria, NSF)

In 2001 a team led by Sandra Pizzarello of Arizona State University, in Tempe discovered it along with related molecules called pyridine carboxylic acids in the Tagish Lake meteorite.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)