Texas

UK: /ˈtɛksəs/ US: 'Texas', 'texas': (tek′səs)

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Texas / ˈtɛksəs/ noun

1. a state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid Sacramento and Davis Mountains of the southwest; a major producer of cotton, rice, and livestock; the chief US producer of oil and gas; a leading world supplier of sulphur. Capital: Austin. Pop: 22 118 509 (2003 est). Area: 678 927 sq km (262 134 sq miles)
   Abbreviation: Tex., (with zip code) TX

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tex•as  (tek′səs), n. [U.S. Naut.]

1. Nautical, Naval Terms a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.
2. Nautical, Naval Terms See texas deck. 

• after Texas, from the fact that the officers' accommodation was the most spacious on the Mississippi steamboats, on which cabins were named after states 1855–60

Tex•as  (tek′səs), n. 

1. Place Names a state in the S United States. 14,228,383; 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Cap.: Austin. Abbr.: Tex., TX (for use with zip code).

Tex′an, Tex•i•an  (tek′sē ən), adj., n.