texas

Noun
  1. The second largest state;
    Located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico (synset 109164256)
    is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
    belongs to: confederacy, confederate states, confederate states of america, dixie, dixieland, south - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
    has:
    • chisholm trail - a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s
    • 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
    • laredo - a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande
    • lubbock - a city in northwest Texas to the south of Amarillo
    • 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
    • wichita falls - a city in north central Texas near the Oklahoma border
    • 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
    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
    same as: lone-star state, tex., tx

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