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Itas·ca (i tas′kə)

lake in NW Minn., a source of the Mississippi: c. 2 sq mi (5.2 sq km)

Etymology: coined by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft < L (ver)itas, truth + ca(put), head, in ref. to other alleged sources

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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