YELLOWSTONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Yellowstone mean? 

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

1. a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YELLOWSTONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Yellowstone; Yellowstone River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

Mont.; Montana; MT; Treasure State (a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border)

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)

 Context examples 

Yellowstone is among the world's largest supervolcanoes, with frequent earthquakes.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

Geophysical monitoring of the ground above active supervolcanoes, like the one located in Yellowstone National Park, shows that it rises and falls as magma moves beneath the surface of the Earth.

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

The newly discovered reservoir carries hot and partly molten rock upward from the top of Yellowstone's hotspot plume—about 40 miles below the surface.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

Magma located under areas that include the Yellowstone region and the western margin of North and South America can erupt violently, spewing vast quantities of ash into the air, followed by slower flows of glassy, viscous magma.

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

A team of University of Utah seismologists has discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock hidden 12 to 28 miles beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

The team believes these new models help us gain a better understanding of Yellowstone's plumbing system, and may lead to improved estimates of the potential future seismic and volcanic hazards.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

Yellowstone's plumbing system is no larger or closer to erupting than before, scientists are just seeing more of it than ever before.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)