Idaho definition

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A type of large, oblong white potato with a high starch content, grown chiefly in Idaho and used mainly for baking.
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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.
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(place) Mountain State of the NW U.S.: admitted 1890; 82,747 sq mi (214,314 sq km); cap. Boise.
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A state of the United States of America Capital: Boise.
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An Idaho potato.
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idaho
Plural:
idahos

Origin of idaho

  • 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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Idaho Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • They've got fifty agents going all over the state of Idaho looking for an old lady.

  • The main range of the Rockies follows the boundary line between Montana and Idaho west and north-west from Yellowstone Park in Wyoming to Ravalli county, then turns eastnorth-east to Lewis and Clark county, and from there extends' north-north-west into Canada.

  • From where the main range turns east from the Idaho boundary line the crest of the Bitterroot Mountains continues on that line with a downward slope to within one degree of latitude from the Canadian border.

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