MIAMI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Miami mean? 

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

1. a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan

2. 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

  Familiarity information: MIAMI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIAMI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)

Holonyms ("Miami" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

Researchers observed the larvae in a transparent behavioral chamber, developed by the University of Miami's Claire Paris, under the environmental conditions they would encounter at sea.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)

Scientists from the University of Miami and Apex Shark Expeditions published a study, documenting the disappearance of the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from a specific area off the coast of South Africa.

(Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in, Wikinews)

Scientists with NOAA and the University of Miami identified how patterns in the spring phases of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), coupled with variability in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures, could help predict U.S. regional tornado outbreaks.

(Ocean temperatures may hold key to predicting tornado outbreaks, NOAA)

A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway found that European glass eels use their magnetic sense to imprint a memory of water currents in the estuary where they become juveniles.

(Study uncovers magnetic memory of European glass eels, National Science Foundation)

Scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the Institute of Marine Research in Norway used a unique combination of experiments to track larvae movements, using a magnetoreception test facility, or MagLab, and a Norwegian fjord, a natural environment of Atlantic haddock larvae.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)