Yazoo River

The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. state of Mississippi.The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. The exact meaning of the term is unclear. One long held belief is that it means "river of death".The river is 188 miles long and is formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie River and the Yalobusha River in Greenwood. The river parallels the Mississippi River for some distance before joining it north of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Natural levees which flank the Mississippi prevent the Yazoo from joining it before Vicksburg. As a result of this, a "yazoo stream" is a hydrologic term used to describe any river in this situation.
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Noun
1. a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg
(synonym) Yazoo
(hypernym) river
(part-holonym) Mississippi, Magnolia State, MS