WYOMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wyoming mean? 

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

1. a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WYOMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Wyoming"):

Rock Springs (a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border)

Yellowstone; Yellowstone River (a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park)

Teton Range (a mountain range in northwest Wyoming; contains the Grand Teton)

Snake; Snake River (a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition)

North Platte; North Platte River (a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River)

Little Missouri; Little Missouri River (a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota)

Little Bighorn; Little Bighorn River; Little Horn (a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand)

Green; Green River (a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River)

Black Hills (mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore)

Bighorn; Bighorn River (a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana)

Grand Teton National Park (a national park in Wyoming featuring mountains)

Laramie (a university town in southeast Wyoming)

Lander (a town in central Wyoming)

Jackson (a town in western Wyoming)

capital of Wyoming; Cheyenne (the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state)

Casper (a city of east central Wyoming on the North Platte river)

Black Hills (mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming)

Yellowstone National Park (the first national park in the United States; located in the border area between Wyoming and Montana and Idaho; spectacular wilderness; famous for Old Faithful geyser and for buffalo and bears)

Holonyms ("Wyoming" 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)

 Context examples 

The cores, drilled in the Bighorn Basin in Wyoming, are the first terrestrial core samples of the PETM.

(Clues found on how soils may respond to climate change, National Science Foundation)

University of Wyoming earth scientist Davin Bagdonas traversed the Granite, Shirley and Laramie Mountains to examine the batholith.

(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)

The team led by University of Wyoming (UW) scientists took samples of live pine needles in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

(Study reveals surprising role of dust in mountain ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

On Wednesday, October 18, 2019, more than 100 members, reportedly, of the Northern Arapaho Tribe turned out to watch the release of ten buffalo for the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming in the western United States.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

The area in the United States comprised of the following states: Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona.

(Mountain States, NCI Thesaurus)

A census division of the United States consisting of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

(Mountain States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

Today, Wyoming is much too cold for turacos for most of the year, but during the early Palaeogene period, which began with the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago, the Earth was much warmer.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have discovered that weathering of subsurface rock in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California is due more to rocks expanding than to chemical decomposition, as previously thought.

(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)

The announcement was made Friday by Lawrence Molnar, professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his students, and fellow astronomers from Apache Point Observatory (APO), New Mexico, and the University of Wyoming at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas.

(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)

Large bodies composed of biotite granite, such as the Wyoming batholith, are more common in the Neoarchean era (2.8 billion-2.5 billion years ago) than in younger terrains.

(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)