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yellowstone
/ˈjɛloʊˌstoʊn/
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What does yellowstone mean?
proper noun
- A national park of the USA, located in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.
- A river that rises in the park before flowing through Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota, where it empties into the Missouri River.
- A nickname for the 2-8-8-4 locomotive configuration.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈjɛloʊˌstoʊn/
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He overtook him at last on Cedar Creek, near the Yellowstone, and the two met midway between the lines for a parley.
They reached, however, far up the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers, and thence into Oregon.
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Even the bison, to some extent, keeps pace with the seasons, cropping the pastures of the Colorado only till a greener and sweeter grass awaits him by the Yellowstone.
Miles of its flanks are dotted with hot springs, many of them so sulphurous and boisterous and noisy in their boiling that they seem inclined to become geysers like those of the Yellowstone.
In the valley of the Yellowstone, which has but lately been much visited by the white man, Hayden saw stumps of trees thirty inches in diameter which had been cut down by beavers.