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Mississippi

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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

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mississippi river

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2. noun

a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War

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