a type of large, oblong white potato with a high starch content, grown chiefly in Idaho and used mainly for baking
in full Idaho potato
Origin of Idaho
after Idaho, where principally grownIdaho
Mountain State of the NW U.S.: admitted 1890; 82,747 sq mi (214,314 sq km); cap. Boise: abbrev. ID, Id, or Ida
Origin of Idaho
name said to be a Native American word but in fact invented by a local businessman, who origin, originally suggested it (1860) for the Colo. Territory; later given (1863) to territory that became the state of Idaho; possibly from a similar word in Shoshonean or KiowaWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Idaho
Abbr. ID or Id.
A state of the northwest United States. It was admitted as the 43rd state in 1890. Explored by the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805, the region was held jointly by Great Britain and the United States from 1818 to 1846. Idaho became a separate territory in 1863. Boise is the capital and the largest city.x
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- I′da·ho′an
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Proper noun
- A state of the United States of America Capital: Boise.
Origin
When a name was being selected for new territory, eccentric lobbyist George M. Willing suggested "Idaho," which he claimed was a Native American term meaning "gem of the mountains". It was later revealed Willing had made up the name himself.
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Sentence Examples
- By Wyoming and Idaho; W.
- Idaho (Bingham county) to the mouth is of canon character, with walls from a few hundred to 6000 ft.
- The fauna and flora of Idaho are similar in general to those of the other states in the north-western part of the United States.
- Gowen (1836-1889), president of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, sent James McParlan, an Irish Catholic and a Pinkerton detective (who some thirty years later attracted attention in the investigation of the assassination of Governor Steunenberg of Idaho), to the mining region in 1873; he joined the order, lived among the "Molly Maguires" for more than two years, and even became secretary of the Shenandoah division, one of the most notoriously criminal lodges of the order.
- Bancroft, The Northwest Coast (2 vols., San Francisco, 1884), and Oregon (2 vols., ibid., 1886-1888), Washington, Idaho and Montana (ibid., 1890); George Vancouver, Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean (3 vols., London, 1797); Elwood Evans, Washington (Tacoma, Washington, 1893); and E.
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