FLORIDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Florida mean? 

• FLORIDA (noun)
  The noun FLORIDA has 1 sense:

1. a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery

  Familiarity information: FLORIDA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLORIDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Florida"):

Cape Canaveral; Cape Kennedy (a sandy promontory (formerly Cape Kennedy) extending into the Atlantic Ocean from a barrier island off the eastern coast of Florida; the site of a NASA center for spaceflight)

Sarasota (a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico)

Saint Augustine; St. Augustine (a resort city in northeastern Florida; the oldest city in the United States)

Saint Petersburg; St. Petersburg (a city in western Florida on Tampa Bay; a popular winter resort)

capital of Florida; Tallahassee (capital of the state of Florida; located in northern Florida)

Tampa (a resort city in western Florida; located on Tampa Bay on the Gulf of Mexico)

West Palm Beach (a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach; founded as a commercial center for Palm Beach)

Apalachicola; Apalachicola River (a river in northwestern Florida formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River at the Florida border)

Biscayne Bay (a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida)

Caloosahatchee; Caloosahatchee River (a river in southern Florida that flows westerly to the Gulf of Mexico; forms the western end of the Cross-Florida Waterway)

Panama City (a resort and fishing town on the Gulf of Mexico in northwest Florida)

Everglades (a large subtropical swamp in southern Florida that is noted for its wildlife)

cay; Florida key; key (a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida)

Kissimmee; Kissimmee River (a river of central Florida that flows southward to Lake Okeechobee)

Lake Okeechobee; Okeechobee (a lake in southeast Florida to the north of the Everglades)

Okefenokee Swamp (a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia)

Saint Johns; Saint Johns River; St. Johns; St. Johns River (a river in northeastern Florida that flows northward to Jacksonville and then eastward to empty into the Atlantic Ocean)

Tampa Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida)

Gainesville (a university town in north central Florida)

Biscayne National Park (a national park in Florida having underwater coral reefs and marine life)

Everglades National Park (a national park in Florida containing an immense subtropical wilderness with mangrove swamps and rare birds and wild animals)

Daytona Beach (a resort town in northeast Florida on the Atlantic coast; hard white beaches have been used for automobile speed trials)

Fort Lauderdale (a city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations)

Fort Myers (a town in southwest Florida)

Pensacola (a town in extreme northwest Florida)

Jacksonville (Florida's largest city; a port and important commercial center in northeastern Florida)

Key West (a town on the westernmost of the Florida keys in the Gulf of Mexico)

Melbourne (a resort town in east central Florida)

Miami (a city and resort in southeastern Florida on Biscayne Bay; the best known city in Florida; a haven for retirees and a refuge for Cubans fleeing Castro)

Miami Beach (a city in southeastern Florida on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; known for fashionable resort hotels)

Orlando (a city in central Florida; site of Walt Disney World)

Palm Beach (a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast)

Caloosahatchee Canal (a canal that connects Lake Okeechobee with the Caloosahatchee River in southern Florida to form part of the Cross-Florida Waterway)

Holonyms ("Florida" 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)

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 ("Florida" 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)

 Context examples 

It’s surprising, the scientists say, that a member of this group would show up around Florida, because the other two species are from cold, northern waters.

(New sea slug species discovered near condominiums of Florida’s Cedar Key, National Science Foundation)

Researchers at Florida State University are inching toward understanding the ocean's carbon storage, its constituent biological players and the factors that could be limiting its efficiency.

(Research provides new view of the critical role of plankton in marine carbon storage, National Science Foundation)

Scientists at the University of Florida have discovered a new method of observing the brain changes caused by Parkinson’s disease, which destroys neurons important for movement.

(Waterlogged brain region helps scientists gauge damage caused by Parkinson’s disease, National Institutes of Health)

"They're kind of like tree rings, but they're put down daily," said Florida State University co-author Gregory Erickson.

(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)

Without enough sharks, the grazers could devour the underwater grass beds, Michael Heithaus of Florida International University (FIU) has found.

(Sharks, the seagrass protectors, National Science Foundation)

Thousand-year-old tropical soils unearthed by accelerating deforestation and agricultural land use could be unleashing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new study at Florida State University.

(Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide, National Science Foundation)

"This discovery forces us to re-examine our models of how stellar-mass black holes form," said LIGO Director Prof. David Reitze from the University of Florida in the US.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida achieved NCI cancer center designation in 1998 and was awarded NCI comprehensive cancer center designation in 2001.

(H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, NCI Thesaurus)

These islands curve southward from the bottom tip of Florida to the Northwest of Venezuela in South America.

(Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)

A wild-type zebrafish line, the stock of which was obtained from Ekkwill Breeders (Florida).

(Ekkwill Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)