MISSISSIPPIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mississippian mean? 

• MISSISSIPPIAN (noun)
  The noun MISSISSIPPIAN has 2 senses:

1. from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects

2. a native or resident of Mississippi

  Familiarity information: MISSISSIPPIAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSISSIPPIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

From 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Lower Carboniferous; Lower Carboniferous period; Missippian period; Mississippian

Instance hypernyms:

geological period; period (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed)

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

Carboniferous; Carboniferous period (from 345 million to 280 million years ago)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A native or resident of Mississippi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Mississippian" is a kind of...):

American (a native or inhabitant of the United States)