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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Texas mean? 

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

1. the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEXAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Texas"):

Wichita Falls (a city in north central Texas near the Oklahoma border)

Lufkin (a town in eastern Texas)

McAllen (a town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande)

Midland (a town in west central Texas)

Odessa (a city in western Texas)

Paris (a town in northeastern Texas)

Plano (a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas))

San Angelo (a town in west central Texas; formerly a notorious frontier town)

San Antonio (a city of south central Texas; site of the Alamo; site of several military bases and a popular haven for vacationers)

Sherman (a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border)

Texarkana (a town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas)

Tyler (a town in northeast Texas)

Victoria (a town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio)

Waco (a city in east central Texas)

Lubbock (a city in northwest Texas to the south of Amarillo)

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

Brazos; Brazos River (a river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico)

Canadian; Canadian River (a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma)

Colorado; Colorado River (a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico)

Galveston Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston)

Guadalupe Mountains (a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains)

Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)

Pecos; Pecos River (a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas)

Red; Red River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana)

Sabine; Sabine River (a river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico)

Trinity River (a river in eastern Texas that is formed near Dallas and flows generally southeastward to Galveston Bay)

Laredo (a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande)

Big Bend (a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande)

Big Bend National Park (a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife)

Guadalupe Mountains National Park (a national park in Texas that has the highest point in Texas; includes desert wilderness and the ancient Apache hunting grounds)

Abilene (a city in central Texas)

Amarillo (a city in the northern panhandle of Texas)

Arlington (a city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth)

Austin; capital of Texas (state capital of Texas on the Colorado River; site of the University of Texas)

Beaumont (a city of southeastern Texas near Houston)

Brownsville (a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande near its mouth into the Gulf of Mexico; has a channel that accommodates oceangoing ships)

Bryan (a town of east central Texas)

Corpus Christi (a city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico)

Dallas (a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields)

Del Rio (a town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande to the west of San Antonio)

El Paso (a city in western Texas on the Mexican border; located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande across from the Mexican city of Juarez)

Fort Worth (a city in northeastern Texas (just to the west of Dallas); a major industrial center)

Galveston (a town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island)

Galveston Island (an island at the entrance of Galveston Bay)

Garland (a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas))

Houston (the largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Chisholm Trail (a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s)

Holonyms ("Texas" 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)

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 ("Texas" 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)

Derivation:

Texan (of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents)

 Context examples 

Researchers followed 501 couples attempting to conceive between 2005 and 2009 in Michigan and Texas.

(Air pollution exposure in early pregnancy linked to miscarriage, National Institutes of Health)

It is a consortium made up of Baylor College of Medicine and its three primary teaching hospital affiliates: Ben Taub Hospital, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Texas Children's Hospital.

(Dan L Duncan Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

It is part of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

(Harold C Simmons Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Zahedivash said within the year, the MasSpec Pen will be tested in surgery at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

A team at the University of Texas at Austin has been using worms to study disorders related to the nervous system.

(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)

A state in northern Mexico bordering with Texas.

(Coahuila, NCI Thesaurus)

In this latest study, researchers led by University of Texas kinesiology professor Rhonda Prisby now report the presence of strange bone-like particles - and they could have something to do with vascular disease.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The cell-like structures — each about the size of Texas — are the signature of violent motions that transport heat from the inside of the sun to its surface.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

A team of scientists lead by Dr. Raghu Kalluri of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center searched for biomarkers on tiny, fluid-filled sacs called exosomes.

(Method for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer, NIH)

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed new guidelines for fabricating nanoscale gel materials, or nanogels, that can deliver therapeutic remedies to treat cancer in a precise manner.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)