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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the state or residents of Mississippi or the Mississippi River.
- adj. Of or belonging to the geologic time, system of rocks, or sedimentary deposits of the fifth period of the Paleozoic Era, characterized by the submergence of extensive land areas under shallow seas. See Table at geologic time.
- n. A native or resident of Mississippi.
- n. The Mississippian Period. Also called Lower Carboniferous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the State of Mississippi or the river Mississippi.
- n. A native or an inhabitant of Mississippi, one of the Gulf States of the United States.
- n. In the scheme of classification and nomenclature of the rocks adopted by the United States Geological Survey, the purely marine sedimentation of the early or Lower Carboniferous rocks of the interior or Mississippi basin.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of a geologic epoch within the Carboniferous period from about 359 to 318 million years ago; marked by glaciation and the appearance of the first trees.
- adj. Of, or pertaining to, Mississippi or its culture
- n. The Mississippian epoch.
- n. An inhabitant or a resident of the state of Mississippi.
- adj. Of a geologic epoch within the Carboniferous period from about 359 to 318 million years ago; marked by glaciation and the appearance of the first trees.
- adj. Of, or pertaining to, Mississippi or its culture
- n. The Mississippian epoch.
- n. An inhabitant or a resident of the state of Mississippi.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A geological period extending from from 310 million to 345 million years ago; it was associated with an increase of land areas, the presence of primitive ammonites, and emergence of winged insects; called also
Missippian period andLower Carboniferous period . - n. A resident of Mississippi.
WordNet 3.0
- n. from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects
- n. a native or resident of Mississippi
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“The 11-term Mississippian has a reputation as a maverick, more so since Mr. Obama's inauguration.”
“I then move on to Elvis’ origins in Mississippian poverty, and his visits to Sun Records in Memphis to record his own voice using their old disc cutting machine (this ties in nicely with the earlier session on the development of recording technology: magnetic tape started to be used in the late 1940s, so Sun were making use of the last generation of direct-to-disc recording).”
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“He marched his army through the center of what we now call Mississippian cultures; they amazed him with their artistry, courage, and sophistication—even if he despised them as “damned” pagans.”
“Archaeologists tend to call Mississippian polities “chiefdoms” and sometimes “paramount chiefdoms” depending upon the geographic extent and number of subordinate towns under their control.”
“While not shale, the formation known as the Mississippian--an easier-to-drill rock--requires the same drilling techniques, including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, that have brought about the biggest boom in U.S. drilling in a generation.”
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“Additional important archaeological material, such as Mississippian items from the Spiro Mound of eastern Oklahoma, was acquired from other collectors in the 1920s and '30s.”
“A book on Mississippi by a Mississippian at this particular moment in our history raises the inevitable question: What kind of Mississippian?”
“John Ford, sheriff of Mobile County, in the "Mississippian," Jackson”
“John ford, sheriff of Mobile County, in the "Mississippian," Jackson Mi.”
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