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Definition of Tucson

1. Noun. A city in southeastern Arizona ringed by mountain ranges; long known as a winter and health resort but the population shift from industrial states to the Sunbelt resulted in rapid growth late in the 20th century.

Definition of Tucson

1. Proper noun. A city located in the state of Arizona in the southwestern United States. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Tucson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Investigations of Infra-red Spectra by William Weber Coblentz (1908)
"The elevation of Tucson is 2390 feet, while the highest of the mountains that surround the plain in which the city lies, the Santa Catalina Range, ..."

2. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"The ampitheatre of Tucson is thoroughly satisfactory. ... Westward rises the brown and mostly bare Sierra Tucson, and in the north the view is bounded by ..."

3. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"One taken in December near Tucson, ¡nul one on San Pedro in January. ... Not uncommon about Tucson (Brown) ; rare on San Pedro in late January. ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"BOTANICAL NOTES FROM Tucson. BY JOS. F. JAMES.1 Fis not very many years since the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico were regarded as the most forbidding ..."

5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"Magazine Supplement Advertising Development Tucson, Arizona 590 Tho adol>e ruins of a previous civilization arc the more interesting when contrasted with ..."

6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1886)
"I have notes of its occurrence about Tucson in late May and early June in pairs ... Common during the migrations about Tucson. Mr. Brown's experience agrees ..."

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