MINNESOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Minnesota mean? 

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

1. a midwestern state

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINNESOTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Gopher State; Minn.; Minnesota; MN; North Star State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Minnesota"):

Voyageurs National Park (a national park in Minnesota having ancient rock outcroppings and evergreen forests)

Bemidji (a town in northern Minnesota)

Duluth (a city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior)

Hibbing (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range)

Mankato (a town in southern Minnesota)

Minneapolis (largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; noted for flour mills; one of the Twin Cities)

Rochester (a town in southeast Minnesota)

Saint Cloud; St. Cloud (a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River; granite quarries)

capital of Minnesota; Saint Paul; St. Paul (capital of the state of Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river adjacent to Minneapolis; one of the Twin Cities)

Twin Cities (nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis)

Virginia (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range)

Little Sioux River (a river that rises in southwestern Minnesota and flows southwestward to the Missouri River in western Iowa)

Mesabi Range (a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887)

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

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

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)

 Context examples 

The team used mass cytometry, or CyTOF, technology and applied it for the first time in aging research, which is unique to the University of Minnesota.

(Scientists Find Natural Product That Slows Aging, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers examined 37 years of data tied to plant biodiversity (number of different species) and plant productivity (amount of plants) in 21 grassland and savanna areas in Minnesota.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)

Research at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, sheds the first light on the life of a young Rapetosaurus, a titanosaurian sauropod buried in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.

(Newly discovered baby Titanosaur sheds light on dinosaurs' early lives, NSF)

A census region of the United States consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.

(Midwestern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine adjuvant consisting of a combination of the active monophosphoryl lipid A component of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) isolated from the bacterium Salmonella minnesota combined with a residue of the cell wall of the bacterium Mycobacterium phlei.

(Detox, NCI Thesaurus)

A detoxified, nonspecific immunostimulant consisting of a combination of the active monophosphoryl lipid A component of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) isolated from the bacterium Salmonella minnesota combined with a residue of the cell wall of the bacterium Mycobacterium phlei.

(DetoxPC, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers at the University of Minnesota, through the National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, found that a common, non-disease-causing bacterium in the environment, Shewanella oneidensis MR-1, developed rapid resistance when repeatedly exposed to nanoparticles used in making lithium ion batteries, the rechargeable batteries used in portable electronics and electric vehicles.

(Nanoparticles may have bigger impact on the environment than previously thought, National Science Foundation)

A research team led by James L. Kirkland, M.D., Ph.D., of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota found that injecting even a small number of senescent cells into young, healthy mice causes damage that can result in physical dysfunction.

(Senolytic drugs reverse damage caused by senescent cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

Decades after farmland is abandoned, plant biodiversity and productivity struggle to recover, according to new University of Minnesota research.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)

Researchers from Department of Chemistry in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota found a natural product, called Fisetin, a plant polyphenol from the flavonoid group, reduces the level of these damaged cells in the body.

(Scientists Find Natural Product That Slows Aging, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)