| mississippi | (n) a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico, Syn. Mississippi River |
| mississippi | (n) a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War, Syn. MS, Magnolia State |
| mississippian | (n) from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects, Syn. Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period |
| mississippian | (n) a native or resident of Mississippi |
| american alligator | (n) large alligator of the southeastern United States, Syn. Alligator mississipiensis |
| effeminacy | (n) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man), Syn. sissiness, unmanliness, effeminateness, softness, womanishness, Example: the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy; Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness; he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him |
| effeminate | (adj) having unsuitable feminine qualities, Syn. epicene, sissy, emasculate, sissyish, sissified, cissy |
| jackson | (n) capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River, Syn. capital of Mississippi |
| jacobean lily | (n) Mexican bulbous herb cultivated for its handsome bright red solitary flower, Syn. Aztec lily, Strekelia formosissima |
| sticky geranium | (n) geranium of western North America having pinkish-purple flowers in open clusters, Syn. Geranium viscosissimum |
| waratah | (n) straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes, Syn. Telopea speciosissima |