LA CROSSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does La Crosse mean? 

• LA CROSSE (noun)
  The noun LA CROSSE has 1 sense:

1. a town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River

  Familiarity information: LA CROSSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LA CROSSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("La Crosse" is a part of...):

Badger State; WI; Wis.; Wisc.; Wisconsin (a midwestern state in north central United States)

 Context examples 

Scientists have determined that La Crosse virus (LACV), which can cause inflammation of the brain in children, affects brain cells differently depending on their developmental stage.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)